Death Note has so much expansion potential, but they keep going back to the story of Light Yagami

Death Note has a surprising amount of adaptations. You've got the anime, the live-action duology, the stage musical, the drama, and the Netflix adaptation. All of those, including the Netflix adaptation, followed the story of Light Yagami in some capacity. Of course, Netflix isn't done, as the Duffer Brothers want to do an adaptation of the story. Sure, if Netflix can somehow redeem themselves for the travesty from 2017, that'd be great, but do we really have to adapt the story of Light Yagami for the umpteenth time?

Now, I know what some of you might be thinking: "how can they expand on a story about a guy with a notebook that kills people?" Well, The Los Angeles BB Murder Case novel had the killer use the Shinigami Eyes for his Modus Operandi (though, how he got them was unclear since he didn't have a Death Note). The movie, Light Up The New World, had sort of a Death Note Battle Royale going on (I wonder if that was where Ohba got the idea for Platinum End). The 2020 one-shot had the protagonist use the Death Note to make himself rich and fixed Japan's economy. The other movie, L: Change The World... didn't really do anything with the Death Note. That was honestly, just a crime thriller that just happened to star L.

The point I'm making here is that it can be done. There are so many ways the Death Note could be used beyond "killing a bunch of criminals." Light Up The New World had an interesting concept, but squandered the execution. A Death Note vs. Death Note story could have been a pretty cool idea. We could have had that with Mello, but he didn't have the Death Note for very long. Maybe one character wants to carry on the legacy of Kira, while the other uses the Death Note to kill people for senseless murder, and they have to figure each other's identity.

Another thing in Death Note that was never utilized was the lifespans for the Shinigami Eye Deal. Maybe instead of killing people with the Death Note, the protagonist makes the Shinigami Eye Deal to find out when people are going to die and prevent it. However, somebody else gets a Death Note and uses it to undo the prevented deaths because they believe fate shouldn't be tampered with. It could flip the whole theme of the original story by starting a debate if preventing death is better than causing it.

Or maybe instead of killing criminals, the protagonist uses the Death Note to kill celebrities, public figures, and people they know personally that they hate. It could be a meta commentary on the crazies in the Death Note fandom that bought replica Death Notes to do specifically that. The protagonist could be Light Yagami if he had neither the looks, intelligence, nor the charisma to back him up.

Those are just my silly ideas, but I feel like the franchise should grow beyond Light Yagami. Last year, we had a Parasyte K-Drama that was pretty good, and instead of being a direct adaptation, it's a sequel that takes place in the same universe. I also feel like the Netflix adaptation could have gotten a little less scorn if it took the "same universe" approach instead of turning Light into a school shooting waiting to happen and L into Mello with a laser gun.