The people in the stories seem human and full of foibles and the lives they live are often not particularly glamorous. Naturalistic style is only one style. Psychological realism is a great way to tell us about ourselves but it is limited. We don't talk in poetry, poetry is rarely realistic to the way we use language, but poetry is still an amazing medium to illuminate, and in the same way, conventions other than psychological realism can do things that psychological realism cannot. Tarot cards and dreams tell us things about ourselves because they sneak through our assumptions.
Magic realism can do the same thing.
So can omniscient and lots of other styles that are getting more and more accepted. That's the problem with selecting your conventions, you gain some things and you lose some things. I've been thinking a lot about p.o.v. It's a pretty writerly thing to be thinking about, which means has about all the conversational pizazz of an engineer discussing chrome plating techniques or the difference between ABS and glass filled ABS plastic. But imagine this is a trade journal, which it is.