I'd say he invented the genre and so had to include some simple and readily grasped tropes in order to give it mass appeal... Or perhaps it gained that mass appeal precielsely by incorporating what you criticize.
Don't sweat it, when you write your world changing, genre defining masterwork, you can make it as deep and morally ambiguous as you please.
Don't sweat it, when you write your world changing, genre defining masterwork, you can make it as deep and morally ambiguous as you please.