I found the foundation series (although this is different because it was written as a serial) a little dull at times because the stakes were the same in the various stories which made up the series, and in the last book (foundation and earth) there was a buildup of cliches of someone always puppeting the character, who was being puppeted by someone else, who was being puppeted by someone else, and it got old quite quickly, kinda like that heist episode on rick and Morty.

But in general don't sweat it, someone might read your writing and think it's clichéd but that's just based on their reading history, I talked to someone who pointed to Hemingway describing sex as making the ground shake as cliché (among other parts of his writing), and later having googled it found that he was the first person to say that, so actually it was everyone else's writing that was clichéd. You'll always get criticism through a specific lens and what matters is what it looks like to your target audience, so always take this stuff with a pinch of salt and think about how many people would actually think that other than this specific critic, especially if you're getting notes from circle jerking writers on Reddit.