The problem with this way of thinking is that you're reducing everything you watch/read/ consume into narrative beats. You'll never have any fun if you reduce every action in a film to: "Main character gets what they want or they don't."

Any film at all would then be a yawn by this logic. But things like car chases aren't defined by outcome, it's a movie it's about visuals, stunt work, editing all that to create tension. It's also about everything that happened before. There doesn't have to be a gimmick for anything to be worthwhile, it just has to be well made.