Unpopular Opinion

I disagree.
Vampire is an interesting monster but very popular. Which makes it in a specific fiction easily classic and boring or badly written.

There is examples of well written classic vampire story. The most famous being Dracula from Bram Stocker which is not only interesting as the first of a kind but hold as a very good story.
There is examples of interesting twist on the classic vampire which are nice as any good remake is. For example, the energy vampires in What We Do in the Shadows.

That being said, you don't need to enjoy any of it. Tastes are subjective.

House of Ashes started out in Mesopotamia, and honestly I wish the entire game was set in that era rather than moving to the Iraq War.

Watching an ancient civilization try to stand against a massive horde of space vampires would've been incredible. And I daresay that could lend itself to your criticism of the very Euro-centric nature of most vampires stories.

Why not South American vampires?

Castlevania Nocturne

There are so many vampire stories that don't suffer from these problems. It just means you are unfamiliar with the genre.

Dragons.

And magic.

Biggest fukn deus ex machina bullshit ever.

If you're into dragons and magic then I assume you're intellectually and or emotionally immature. They're cheap gimmicks for children.

Someone didn't see Blade movies, I guess

Just to put different stories out.

In Trinity blood is post post apocalypse. some vampires were engineers building advance tech rebuilding what was lost. Even had ways to blanket the skies with anti UV clouds letting in sunlight without burning up. Plus didnt have the woe is me mentality. Vampires couldn't even eat ppl in the new terran empire cause they are all property of their vampire empress.

Day breakers was pretty dumb scifi but vampires were the main population and needed to resolve the blood issue with dwindling good source.

Penny dreadful vampires are from ancient times but story set in england 1800s lol. Loved the show but ending was rushed due to cancelation.

There are also other stories that deviate/are based on vampires tropes in anime. like Ragna crimson where the "dragons" are effectively vampire covens with queens and gods that hunt a kingdom to extinction because someone's Cafe shutdown there.

Point is there is plenty of ways vampire stories evolved over time in media. its just popular western media that is letting us down.

Upvoted for truly an unpopular opinion.

The scifi book Blindight uses them in a way you may find interesting (they're just a fork of humanity like the species of fireflies that attract mates only to eat them by who died out due to a genetic fluke, brought back by modern science for their intelligence traits), and that's only a small part of a biologist writing a very "mates ya think" novel exploring consciousness.

Doesn't make any sense. If getting bit by a vampire makes you immortal why is it a problem ?

What We Do in the Shadows? Not cool per se, but funny.

All y'all suggesting various vampire stories that won't annoy OP because they address the listed critisms are wasting your time. OP is already pre-annoyed by the whole concept and won't enjoy those suggestions whether they fall within the critique or not. The only exception might be What We Do In The Shadows, because it lampoons vampire fiction so well, including the things OP points out. For anyone giving that a try, start with the original movie before watching the show.

Someone hasn’t watched What We Do In The Shadows and it shows

Because the ones you're thinking of, mostly older examples, are based around Bram Stoker's novel or in the Hammer Horror vein.

There are, however, many more examples than I can think of which aren't like that at all. 30 days of night, the satanic rites of dracula, from dusk til dawn, Byzantium, blade, near dark, night watch, day watch, blood red sky, daybreakers, the last voyage of the demeter, cronos, Dracula untold.

Wether you like it or not, vampires are sexy, scary, mysterious, and a quality monster.

If we're going to stop something, I'd like less of the done-to-death superhero movies. Now they're trite.

Erm. From dusk till dawn? Blade? Underworld?

OP is a vampire ;)

Why not South American vampires?

Oh! Masks of Nyarlethotep features Kharisiri, Peruvian vampires that harvest fat from their victims. In the story they're servants of El Padre de los Gusanos (The Father of Worms) and are feeding fat from their victims to their god under his pyramid tomb. They're actually what remains of the Conquistadors that desecrated the tomb and broke the seal, releasing the god into our world.

So, yeah, there's so much more to vampires than the same old regurgitated blood suckers they keep forcing down our throats.

Counterpoint:

Sinners

Witcher 3, Blood and Wine

I can't remember who said this, but the quote that vampires are the aristocracy of the undead while zombies are the working class always stuck with me.

The author Peter Watts had a vampire in one of his books that was great: hibernation periods, true multi tasking brain, evolution based explanation on how they exist.

Me, but for zombies.

Seriously. Just empty a bag of rice on the ground in front of a vampire and then tell me how cool and terrifying it is.

Do it inside of your door without inviting it in for extra measure, so the damn thing has to try to count the grains without coming in, and It'll be stuck there until the sun comes out and it burns to ash.

Feel the same about zombies