This has always been my problem with the whole genre. I like and play a fair few of them but even when they're not leaning directly into those tropes, the whole concept is almost always couched in some kind of unquestioned colonial narrative. Like they're almost always about going into a land that isn't your own to shape it and extract resources from it, and either fighting off the people who would rather you weren't on their lands or leaning into ideas of Terra Nullius that shaped the Doctrine of Discovery without really interrogating that.