If a mystery story or science-fiction story or superhero story
doesn't have characters' wellbeing and expectations on display
at /all/, then it's an abstract thing that many readers will
find unsatisfactory.  But if the story is /mainly/ about something
else, then those elements can be sketched in, just as we don't
need to know very much about how the spaceship's faster-than-light
engine works.  A moderately experienced reader can imagine the
parts that aren't in detail, or, at least, recognises how they count.
Or, a story can put the personal feelings in foreground and even
just sketch in the mystery or sci-fi stuff.  And after all, if
we're preparing ourselves to go live in the future, or to acquire
super-powers - or, for many of us, we've already done at least the
first of those - it's also important to explore how that's going
to /feel/.