re: Why is it so hard for major movie/tv productions to get the plot believable?

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Because, almost by definition, drama, excitement, horror, etc., are not logical operators. Or in short, emotions aren't logical.

So if you are looking to create certain feelings in people, typically you have to operate outside of logic.

Think about any action movie. They revolve completely around the idea of nearly fantastical lucky situations of people surviving multiple moments of death - typically. Even in a kids film when you really watch them. We only get brief feelings of excitement when things get dangerous but the hero escapes.

But the hero must escape, regardless of the logic, because if he dies...there's no movie. So a suspension of disbelief is required to just go with the idea that this teenager - even in a film like Jumanji - just avoided a giant rampaging rhino. Fell off a ledge and avoided getting knocked out, etc.

You wouldn't get excitement if they died, and you wouldn't get excitement if there was no danger.

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I agree with this point, but sometimes there are obvious ways to do things and movies seemingly choose not to do it.

One that comes to mind is in Infinity War [Spoiler]
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When Starlord gets mad and hits Thanos thus causing them not to be able to remove the Infinity Gauntlet. That reaction was a completely unrealistic reaction from Starlord no matter how much they try and justify it. No one would do that knowing that he could try and murder the shite out of Thanos immediately after they removed the gauntlet. It's just not a realistic reaction and really didn't advance the story as there are 100s of other ways they could have devised for them to fail getting the infinity gauntlet.
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that's just one of many many examples in movies that make an obvious choice to do something that a realistic character would never do, and it does get frustrating at times.