People only talk about Thanos with the gauntlet though. I've been reading up on Thanos since before the MCU when people would mention him in the Rec Room on SOHH. He just seems OP and boring. He's like an evil silver age superman. I don't see how people can call Supes boring and stan Thanos, especially if he has the gauntlet.
Thanos really didn't have many stories that flushed out his character like that imo, up until like 2001 or so, so I dont really blame you. I feel like that's when he was in a bunch of other stuff featured and flushed out a bit more instead of being just that dude with the gauntlet. But your average reader knows him for just that.
He's more like a Dr Doom, but just a straight up power house nihilistic cosmic being. He's a force that smart and actually powerful enough to really take down almost anything in his path but doesn't really care to do so unless they get in his way.
Even when he just wanted to be left alone he has so many enemies that he couldn't even do that.
Reading thanos books or events are always interesting (to me) because its like getting a pov from a someone that has absolute no regard for life, not in a I'm crazy joker way, or I want to be rich way, I'm just some entity or want to rule the world or have a bunch of women... but more from a "rational" I deserve to be recognized as superior to all thing in the universe.