I've seen a similar question asked: "Is the story about something?"--not in the sense of, "does this film have a premise?", but in the sense "does this film address a bigger, universal theme? does it speak to something larger than the immediate plot?" Not quite the same concern but...I feel like it is getting at the same sort of idea. I feel like some of the "cheaper" genres like horror and romcoms (cheaper in the sense both that they are less expensive to make and that the genre carries lower quality expectations than others) routinely fail to address these sorts of concerns, which may reflect that the people working in these genres aren't aware of these storytelling concerns or don't view they are important. And yet the films that stand out in even the cheesiest genres are the ones that DO make the audience feel something by addressing a bigger theme, films like Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives in horror and films like The Apartment and Tootsie in romantic comedies. It's the difference between just hitting the major genre tropes and telling a good story inside a genre.