The funny thing here is that the concept of taking classics and simplifying them has existed for a long time, it's just that it was marketed directly at children and not, presumably, grown men who think they need to lit-maxx whatever
And making entertaining adaptations to other media like comics or movies or TV shows is a whole art form in itself! The same with creative “retelling” (like retelling Shakespeare as prose stories for kids.)
It’s not just “run it through a blender and reduce it to the most rudimentary elements”