Like Warhammer lore is digestible because it’s very self aware that it’s ridiculous.
Battletech unfortunately is really self serious. The different houses of the Inner Sphere are basically a rough sketch of what a redditor thinks America, Europe, Russia, and China are and Japan.
Then you have the clans who are basically exiled nazis with a handful of quirky social progressive quirks.
This. Is a shame because Battletech and MechWarrior are really cool.
But the understanding of states of any stripe is basically what a redditor thinks if they were also from the 80s.
I think I would appreciate sci fi that werent blisteringly inaccurate and vulgar appropriations of real modern day states. God damn.
It also propogates and reinforces misinformation. The author will fill their knowledge gaps with whatever the prevailing pop narrative is (e.g. red scare). Then the media consumers, often assuming that an author making an analogy implies authoritative knowledge of the subject (e.g. pop opinion of Orwell and Animal Farm), see this as more evidence that those falsehoods are correct and embrace the bad information with even more confidence.
That is true unfortunately.
I was soured at Cabinet of Curiosities for example because one episode thought it would be cool to tell bullshit about Gaddafi.