okay ive learned why this thing keeps being relevant, i thought it was an implication, which i could be misreading, that adhering to the hero's journey inherently makes a story better, but apparently in the 1980s there was literally a white guy at disney (not even joe campell, notably) saying "here is a checklist for writing good stories, use this" which has just confirmed so many of my suspicions and opinions about this thing. the heros journey is worthless for categorization or analysis of stories, dont talk about it