That too. And certainly never a hint of "We're just like a family!!! so we certainly can't deal with that missing stair."

Or "this person is weird and aloof and not personally bonding with our wonderful found family so no resources for YOU in the apocalypse."

I mean, I understand the fantasy appeal of the story where community-building is very important but also relatively easy and basically about making friends with some cool people! It's like the guaranteed HEA in a romance novel, it's part of the genre conventions and what people go to it for.

But I think it would be really interesting to have some stories about community-building which are more chewy about the difficulties and not "cozy" in emotional tone.

... I realize that what I'm doing here is possibly inventing a micro-genre that nobody apart from me wants to read.