The issue is for every good/funny WTF moment like "bathwater dildo" in a series, 10 other different series just feel floaty and weird all the way through, like nothing really matters.

Not due to any particular Deus Ex machina moment but just because I have no idea what anybody can actually do at any given time. It usually manifests in the opposite, actually, where a character suddenly CAN'T do something because the plot would be ruined if they could...but there's not real reason for WHY they can't do i when they were able to do all this other stuff earlier. What do you MEAN you can't heal a gunshot wound, "Doctor" Strange?

I like a good undefined magic system but it requires the author to overall be MUCH better at writing to pull off a satisfying story.