My issue with contemporary Fantasy is that "fantasy" has been completely ripped out of it.
"Fantasy" writers simply copy-paste what is currently popular within the genre. They copy-paste without actually understanding any intricacies.
For example, every "Fantasy" RPG writer cannot be bothered to make up his own fictional currency or make up his own fictional species, and thus gold coins and the Tolkien species line up will be copy-pasted until morale improves.
Fun Fact: In the original Tolkien stories, the baseline Orc is actually physically WEAKER than a Human but stronger than a Dwarf.
And yet contemporary "Fantasy" portrays Orcs as being muscular tanks, because that is how pop culture views them. In the original Tolkien stuff, only the Uruk-hai, the elite orcs, are meant to be muscular tanks, but "Fantasy" writers are just mindless copy-paste retards, so they do not know that.
Which brings me back to gold coins: Because the writers just copy paste, they do not consider the intricate ramifications of using gold coins as currency.
Gold is valuable, (((people))) will thus clip them so they can have a tiny supply of gold that will add up to a large sum if enough coins are clipped.
Historically, gold coins, silver coins, and even copper coins all got clipped by (((people))) because of this.
And yet, I have seen almost ZERO fantasy writers even MENTION coin clipping, yet alone include a mission where the player-characters can hunt down coin clippers. (Or become coin clippers, as an option for evil player-characters)
The only fantasy writer I have seen mention coin clipping in his made-up world is George Martin, which is ironic, to say the least.
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/game-of-thrones-creator-george-r-r-martin-discovers-hes-22-percent-jewish/
Rant over.
TLDR: Most "Fantasy" writers lack creativity or historical knowledge and instead copy paste everything from pop-culture with 0 philosophical tact, to the point where I suspect the writers are actually chinks, indians, or ai.
There's also conspiracy theories that musk and his space cadets can mine gold off asteroids but that sounds like fantasy bullshit to me
One thing I've noticed is that over the last 30+ years the news always told the general public not to buy gold or save gold, but to invest in these fake stocks
Whereas what do the bankers hoard? They hoard all the gold bars. That's what they want in their vaults. Not fiat not your junk bonds or fake equities. The central bankers stack the gold kilo bars .999
Also they manipulate the comex price to trick normies into believing it to be a bad investment. I forget the ratio of paper gold contracts versus real physical gold being purchased and it is very high. Basically the paper contracts are insolvent so the physical gold is undervalued. Very manipulated so they try to force normies into jew New York stock exchange funds such as sp500 index or others