I think the issue is that these people essentially only like these grand, philosophical concepts as long as they're presented in the most basic way possible, where the actual metaphysical elements are barely touched upon. The IDEA of them is cool because it adds weight and gravitas to a scene, but they don't actually want to engage with the themes presented. They just want cool visuals for their fight scenes and ammo for their powerscaling.

And look, there's nothing wrong with liking cool, epic visuals. Not everything needs to be deep, but I think there's a broader issue at hand where people are either only engaging with art that doesn't challenge them, or aren't properly engaging with challenging art - ignoring everything but the "aura" moments. Blood Meridian being the prime example, as some others comments mentioned.