if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on
stop wink wink nudge nudging me about how silly the genre is, asshole. i like that genre. I'm reading your story because I like that genre. your wink wink nudge nudging just tells me you're too unoriginal to deliver an actual critique and too irony-poisoned to unabashedly enjoy the clichés. again I ask: why the hell would you waste both of our times like this
honestly this is true even of genres I don't particularly like! i don't even enjoy romance all that much, but if I'm reading a romance novel, i expect there to BE romance novel trappings in there, and am therefore pretty fine with them existing. there are an awful lot of romance clichés that I hate, but it's still not cute or clever to include them just to laugh at them. why would you disrespect your own genre in such a substanceless way. say something true and beautiful NOW!!!!!
Your irony-poisoned "haha we know this is cliche and stupid" writing doesn't make you look clever it makes you look deeply insecure. It makes you look defensive. It makes you look like you think your story sucks and you're scared that the readers will agree with you so you're making your imaginary audience's point for them and jumping to their side preemptively to protect yourself from their judgement of your story.
The side you're jumping to is made up. The audience wants to see the genre they're reading; you're cringing and apologising for your story for no reason. It doesn't come off as clever, it comes off as either mocking your audience or having so little confidence in your own story that you're backtracking within the text itself. How can an audience get invested in a story that you keep apologising for within the text? Why are you making your audience's job harder? If you want your audience to commit, you have to commit first.