Final Solution to the Deus Ex Machina problem
I made an observation that there are two distinct player bases in RPG community:
1. Left-leaning (e.g. trantifa) people who prefer storytelling, socialization and narrative, usually in free form fashion, frequently informed by the real world events in modern America. In their world Mary Sue always wins, and if she dies some deus ex machina brings her back. They rarely run official modules, since that is plagiarism and they are too creative to play by letter. These people come from humanities background and usually hate AI. They tend to enjoy quirky dice systems, like 2d12, since these allow for their imagination to spark.
2. Right-leaning (e.g. technofascists) people who prefer playing actual gameplay, with precise goals and use a lot of rules and oracles to drive the game like a statistical simulation, or they run an official module. In their world Mary Sue is obliged to find a gruesome death in a classic 1e D&D dungeon, and they will just create another character. These players come from natural science and comp-sci backgrounds. They enjoy classic straight d20, since it clearly covers 100% in 5% increments.
The two groups play drastically different types of games and generally hate each other with extreme passion as part of the general cultural war. Maybe the proper way to reconcile them is separatism: segregate RPG community into clearly labeled black and white zones, so they wont be contacting each other?
TLDR: retire creative people from writing, and you will have solid stories based on facts and logic.