Worse, showing how obstacles are overcome and not seeing it applied in real world is soul crushing.
This is often because politics turned from initially being a way of solving problems to a popularity ascend machismo contest - and it infects everything.
The difference is applying science and rational thinking vs. soundbites and reasoning from ideology.
That's the problem, the definition of "better" is the whole point.
Say for USA, setting the marginal tax rate of 1M dollars to 100%, including for company revenues, and redistributing that money to the poor greatly increases the Gini coefficient. That's just increasing a number that is widely agreed to be a "sensible definition of better", can't get more "rational" than that. You can write a bulletproof proposal that can't be rationally argued against.
Ideology is not just a series of individual policies, it's a lens through which you can evaluate every possible policy proposal.
"Finding the middle ground" is the Third Way popularized by Blair and Macron now, that has also failed, because it maintains the status quo.
I think that this is an important consideration. If I am not mistaken, this is part of the reason why the super-geniuses in the larger comic universes (e.g. Marvel) do not cure cancer.
Fiction can only nudge the public opinion.