Why is everything related to Apokolips aesthetically kind of weird and silly?

Let me preface this by saying I'm not trying to piss off Superman fans, but I couldn't think of another way to phrase this question.

So, Darkseid and Apokolips are some of the main and most serious threats Superman faces. Darkseid is a big bad, Apokolips is a hellhole, it's always a big deal with Superman fights against them. But... I feel like everything related to Apokolips is kind of weirdly dumb, whether it is the names of the baddies, their costumes, their themes, even what things are called. The tone of everything is bizarre and discordant. "Boom tubes?" "Mother Box?" "Granny Goodness and her weird S&M girl troupe? The name Apokolips or even Darkseid, odd spellings of homophones for foreboding english words? Darkseid's son is a giant otter in green shorts? Is all of this just a byproduct of an era in comics where everyone was on LSD? Is it the strange fever dream of one guy who came up with it all?

I don't know how else to put it, but when I look at everything I know about DC, Apokolips and its related characters and things just feel like they stick out like a sore thumb aesthetically. I have always wondered why this is. Does anyone have some inside baseball knowledge that accounts for this? Or maybe, is it just my perception and it all doesn't stick out as much as it seems?