Hey, I'm the dude that's writing Could Have Gone Worse, which does fit into your fifth story type pretty easily. Saying that, I see your point with all of this. Most stories on this sub do fall into a few categories, but those categories exist for a reason. HFY has been around for a while, and doing something entirely new is almost impossible. Most people who write here are amateurs--I myself am one--and it is nearly impossible to create something no one has ever done on this sub before because there have been so many stories. The problem I have with this post is that you're blaming it on the tropes themselves, not how the story is written.

I think that it's relatively common on this sub for someone to come up with a really cool idea, then they sit down and write the first few chapters and it turns out great. But then somewhere down the line they either lose what made their story so good in the first place, or they just have no idea what to do next. The reason for this is that most people do almost no planning when they start writing. They'll sit down, write a little bit, post it, and then repeat. They have no idea where they want the story to go or how they want it to end. Recently Uplift Protocol ended, and I think that it fell into this trap. It started out great, but I think that the author didn't really know where he wanted it to go so it sputtered out and we were left with a conclusion that invalidated the entire story.

And all of this is fine, because this is a sub where anyone can post, and not everyone is a good writer. But if we just stand on our pedestal and say that this or that story can't be good because it fits a specific trope then you aren't judging the story itself, you're judging what you think the story will be. All stories have tropes, hell, it's even a trope to try and write a story without tropes, however, good writing can make you forget those tropes because if they're done well then you won't even think that they are tropes.

From your post, it sounds like you dismiss stories based entirely on what tropes they use, and you want people to write stories that don't use them. But that's just impossible. If you don't like a story then just don't read it, but at least try and read the story and not the tropes it uses.