thinking about my writing

I am very good at 

• Sentence-level work. 
• Descriptions, especially visual ones (usually). 
• Setting mood.
• Injecting raw emotion into things. 
• I have an intuitive understanding of prose's inherent rhythm and how to properly punctuate a sentence or scene. This is why I was able to understand iambic pentameter when others were struggling. I think my musical training (however limited) helped in this regard. 
• Beginnings. 
• Horror. 

I struggle with

• Plot. LOL yep the whole of it. 
• Making every chapter exciting with its own mini-plot. 
• Apparently, my worlds are both too perfect and too much like Earth, though that's highly subjective and also my main universe is supposed to be something of a parallel universe. However, I could probably stand to make it far more alien. It might be a fun activity. 
• I'm not taking out the hot dogs though. I like food. 
• I seem to have this issue where my characters sometimes come to life and feel real, and other times feel too tropey, meaning that I am inconsistent in this aspect. 
• I raise a lot of questions about the world, meaning that I am revealing an odd amount of information about the world -- enough to raise questions that detract from the actual story itself. 
• Making characters suspicious who are completely innocent. 
• Making some characters "too nice" if they are not direct antagonists. 
• When I'm in the third-person limited POV, I sometimes forget to have internal monologues, meaning that we detach from our character for no good reason. 
• Transitions. They are too choppy. 
• Twists and red herrings; basically executing Sanderlanches. 
• I'll go into random math or physics or computer graphics tangents and then completely forget to explain other scientific concepts of how my world works when I've already established hard sci-fi as an important aspect of my stories. 
• I am very pro-escapism. Some people aren't going to like that and there is no way around this one in particular. 

As much as it sucks to get your work critiqued, this is the only path forward. This is the only way I've been able to pinpoint exactly what I'm struggling with. Along with drastically increasing how much I read, how much I write, and how much I consume shows, games, and movies. Above all, I couldn't stay being mindlessly praised by honors/AP English teachers forever. Praise is nice but it doesn't help you get better and praise isn't going to call up publishing houses for you. My writing has a flashy exterior, but man is it hard to actually execute an entire 5-point plot arc throughout the course of a 100K+ word novel. Furthermorer, my characters should feel real; they should bleed life into my pages and leave lasting impressions on those who read them.