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I feel like this is possibly one of those things where Dune was responsible for a lot of the things you're seeing in it that you might call derivative. Dune was written in 1965 and while I don't mean to imply that Frank Herbert's work was wholly original and that he didn't take great influence from a number of things himself, it was also highly influential at the time and provided a lot of themes and tropes that would be taken up by sci-fi in the coming decades as well.
Hasn't it been said that Star Wars was admittedly pretty influenced by Dune? Lemme see if I can source that ...
EDIT: Yes, apparently Herbert himself even noticed and directly complained about it, https://nerdist.com/article/everything-star-wars-borrowed-from-dune/
To be clear, I don't think this is a bad thing. I don't think Lucas was wrong to wear his influence on his sleeve and I don't think Herbert was wrong to take some offense at it. This is just art, this is how things work. Was it too much? I think it's debatable. Whatever. I'm too old to be arguing about Star Wars on internet forums at this point.
i've heard this called the Seinfeld effect, where Seinfeld was so influential on sitcoms that built off of it that it seems generic in hindsight
it's probably the reason I don't really are about Led Zepplin. I like hard rock and heavy metal all the way to tech death etc, but there's been so many generic hard rock bands that tried to ape led zep and/or rolling stones that I just don't put them on myself. (EDIT : I like them when they come on, but I won't worship it like Igorrr's ancient sun or Black Sabbath's self titled song)
Bands like Deep purple had some bells and whistles that made them stand out even if they got ripped off, but led zep was probably too close to setting/being the standard that they seem generic now.
Seinfeld is Unfunny