I hear you on that, boy howdy. I love audio books, but I have many preferences that I didn't really know I had until I started listening to them. I tend to prefer straight up narration that is acting-adjacent rather than Acting the Story. Generally. I did just listen to a couple with an actual actor who did a phenomenal job. I... can't remember who it was off the top of my head.

I tend not to love the multi-actor as characters ones unless I put myself in the mind frame of listening to, like, a radio play, but not all books work well in that format.

Yeah, I have really loved some actual radio plays but I generally prefer one good narrator to a full cast audiobook. Not sure if that is inherent to the form or just the particular ones I have listened to, it's not a huge sample. That said, I have just now developed the theory that with a cast there are more opportunities to make decisions I don't like - the casting, the direction, the individual performances. And I'm gonna guess the full cast versions are more likely to be abridged, though once again that could just be what I've listened to