And that summary is why I gave up reading SF short stories. Too many depressing navel-gazing arty “think” pieces. Not enough plot. Unfortunately that leeched over into full-length books and now it’s darn hard to find good SF/F novels on bookstore shelves.
Look for Marko Kloos. Very good alien invasion/space battle books.
I suspect it’s all dreck nowadays. If you care to look back a bit and sample some gems from the past ...
Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle
James Schmitz
Jack Vance
Roger Zelazny
Sharon Lee/Steve Miller
Keith Laumer
David Brin
And of course, Heinlein, Asimov, etc...
...
And others I can’t remember at the moment.
There’s more than enough good reading out there.