MonsterHearts also has a "The Chosen." It's not about being the main protagonist, it's about being the emotional turmoil that comes with being the "Chosen One" for better or worse.
"Soap Opera" is a great way of putting it. I'm sorry your play experience was mediocre, but it openly says that's a TTRPG about narrative drama with flirting and zingers. The system has you pull at each other's heart strings for bonuses, the point is to create complicated interpersonal conflict intermixed with physical. There's a reason the setting suggestions are at the end, it's for telling open-ended Soap Operas with Violence like how the Blades is for telling open-ended Heist and Gang dramas. The Dusk is less important than the Engine.