I think you are right in many ways and I agree with you, but clichés have become clichés because they work.
You're right, too. I was too categorical about the cliché. Each situation has to be considered separately.There will still be some of them, and they need to be, but by changing the detail or the pitch a little, you get a different look. For example, the mother, who is overlooked by father, doesn't drink wine sitting on the couch, but, for example, decides to smoke a joint for the first time in her life.
The father doesn't want to have sex with our mother, not because the developer forgot to kill him in the preface or send him on a business trip, but because, for example, he has a fetish for fat women but our mother lost weight years ago.
I mean, its s big deal to make player dont repeat phrase of CJ "oh shit, here we go again".