I was trying to be charitable by bringing up Denji's disposition. Otherwise, I'd consider the setting to be much more human and much more concerned with (certain conceptions of) kindness, duty, and so on. Moreover, the trauma in CSM (and also Berserk, when it happens to Guts) has a point. Denji grows and learns and develops some basic ability for empathy, sociability, and even a level of self-awareness about how he gets blinded by his, uh, appetites, even if he hasn't really overcome them yet. Guts even more so goes from rejecting the possibility of having friends and constantly pushing them away to proactively seeking to help them and internalizing that he is capable of things other than hate and violence. Without things like this (or even a downward spiral to a terminus, it doesn't need to be positive), stories about cyclical trauma become misery porn.
None of these sorts of narrative through-lines can be drawn out of MiA, where the only growing characters really do is learning how to figuratively watch their step better.
They don't recognize all of them, presumably