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Modern and futuristic settings can still be isekai, actually. Like, I recall this one comedy manga where a dude gets isekai'd into the usual elves and dwarves locale but their tech level and civilization is at the same level as 21st century earth. Still goes through the usual isekai tropes...

Eh, quite a lot with Dunbine, actually, considering it's one of the other non-Gundam shows people like to trot out to showcase "Kill 'Em All" Tomino. And I think Now and Then, Here and There did get a bit of blow up during the time of its Western release because of "muh deconstruction" and...

And that's just plain wrong. There were just as plenty of male and shounen/seinen isekai in the 1980s and 90s. Hell I can even name light novels from the 80s. For example, the first Japanese work (not just light novel, predating anime and manga) that would set the tropes of Japanese isekai...

And thus, further shows all of that nonsense spread by sources like Mother's Basement that Japanese isekai started out as a female dominated genre to be complete and utter lies. I mean, even if you ignore Dunbine and Wataru like these SJW dickheads do, you've got shit like Panzer World Galient...

Those are also overused tropes in the Dragon Quest-expies.

Why does Western fantasy go with the cliche Tolkien/DnD-esque settings? Because that's the most widespread and familiar of the fantasy settings and it makes it easier to reach a wider audience. Same with Dragon Quest-esque settings. It's the most widespread and familiar fantasy setting in...