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At first I thought this too. Then I thought of the bigger picture. Stranger is a little guy, literally; no but metaphorically; yes. He may be pretty burly but Sekto and the wolvarks are all his enemies, he is out numbered. Unlike Abe who can take refuge with other mudokuns Stranger is on his own, he has no allies. It's a one man's war.
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I've thought of it that way, but I dunno, it just doesn't seem to fit. Stranger at least has the
means to protect himself and a certain way to live; maybe I haven't understood the plot quite right but he's not like Abe and Munch in the least, since they (Abe and Munch) were both trying to figure out what the hell they were doing here and how, if at all, they were going to do it, and Stranger just kind of focused more on his own existence.
It seems to me that Stranger's plot was just missing the type of global applicability the Abe and Munch games had that made them so much more relatable and made the player actually think about issues in the world that surrounds them. One of the things I most admired about the AO, AE and MO stories was that they went so much deeper than just being a cool story, that it was just an unfamiliar twist on something that could happen in real life.