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Most of the fiction I’ve been exposed to (which is a lot, I enjoy it very much and always have) isn’t like that. They don’t just describe someone as strong or evil, they describe actions and events and emotions from a specific perspective and let you come to your own conclusions.
I guess if you like stuff made for kids, teens, and young adults, you’ll run into that problem a lot more, but it’s not actually an overall problem with fiction as far as I’ve noticed. I’ve never really liked young adult fiction though, because it’s lacking in depth, much like you describe.
I mean there are definitely good works of fiction intended for younger readers. Off the top of my head there's the edge chronicles, skullduggery pleasant, mortal engines, a series of unfortunate events. All things I read when I was younger and from what I remember they never did any of the "this person is eeeeevil" things, I guess skullduggery pleasant had some things verging on that but it was usually eldritch horror type unknown evil than straight up "bad because I say so". And all of those series had depth.