[colinb]

I presume there’s a voting mechanism? Are you complaining because democracy hasn’t yielded your favourite outcome?

FWIW I might align with you in not finding all that much that I wanted to read in recent winners. That said this years nominations for Hugos have given me

A Drop of Corruption

and

Shroud

I enjoyed the former (and the earlier book in the dance series) and I’m 30% though the latter.

[A_D_E_P_T]

The public doesn't vote on the Hugos. It's a clique of WorldCon attendees.