>>50539457well in all fairness, not everything tied to sonic.exe is whole sale horror, necessarily (notable examples being .raw, curse, hasty, taker, the list goes on), though it does make up the vast majority of the content in that field.
At this point, the term "EXE" now classifies as an umbrella term, and is highly different from the original use of it back during .exe's original inception, so variety in terms of tone is to be expected in such a space