I'm trying not to be pessimistic, but I don't think the two are comparable. Vox machina isn't really an Amazon show, yes, they picked it up but the fact that it was a Kickstarter campaign originally, and a ion project by people who really wanted to make it matters.

I only have to look as far a Rings of Power to see that the moment a project lands with people who don't love the source material and don't love the fan community but kind of resent them, things can go pretty badly wrong. It's a question of the right team for me.

How much of this was written by AI? Maybe the author should use their ion for story structure to improve their article writing before telling others how to play D&D. This is just a series of very unclear calls to action. Read this, study this, then you have... Wait for it, story, jazz hands.

I would suggest that the nature of collaborative storytelling lies in the opposite of what you laid out, not in planning or studying, but reacting in the moment to the events taking place, trusting, feeling and taking bold action, overcoming fear and defeating all the odds.

I'm sorry to say what you describe has nothing to do with D&D. It sounds more like the kind of DM that ends up on the rpg horrorstories subreddit because they think they are better than those peasants in the 70s and 80s who "just used the game as dungeon crawl simulator", while completely misunderstanding what it is about this game that led to them making memories of adventures that lasted decades. And no it wasn't studying Joseph Campbell.