No I'll check it out!

Oh gotcha, I did slightly misread what you said. Actually I think I agree with you. It isn't a typical YA book in terms of the stereotypical themes.

All of your examples are things I like about it.

Wish fulfillment heroes are boring imo. Chosen one stories are boring. Hunger Games almost does what Dune does in that sense, and Dune is my favorite book. Obviously Hunger Games is nowhere near as good as Dune (which is fine, HG is more like candy than a French pastry), nor is Katniss as much of an inversion of the trope as Paul, but these themes are more interesting to me than the standard stuff.

Also, I hate love triangles. Hunger Games had too much love triangle stuff for my taste, but at least it wasn't so much that I couldn't read it.

Agreed. After I read the Hunger Games, I thought maybe I'm a fan of YA because I loved it. I tried a bunch of YA books after that, and didn't like any of them. It turns out I'm not a YA fan, I'm just a fan of Hunger Games. That book was really well done.

(Not that I'm saying YA is generally not well done. I'm sure there is plenty of great stuff, and my preferences are not a condemnation of the genre)