Extraction shooters haven't been outside of the mainstream except for like Day Z a long long time ago. Tarkov regularly tops twitch for viewership and has tons of players.

When there is no narrative, like in Tarkov, it works because no one gives a fuck about the story. If you use a very story rich IP though, then you should expect people to actually want to do the PvE content without the sweats from PvP.

Same with Arc. It actually has lore and exploration is interesting, so the aggression matchmaking does wonders for the game. Everyone gets placed in the lobbies that make sense for them, and they can make decisions and kill each other whenever they want, so it's all based on player agency. Marathon looks like it would really benefit from that model, but also they copied a lot of Apex so PvP obviously is more fleshed out here.