Noble Genie Paladin is thematically bizarre

From the UA:

Paladins sworn to the Oath of the Noble Genies revere the forces of the Elemental Planes. Through taking this oath, Paladins draw power from the four different types of genies—dao, masters of earth; djinn, masters of air; efreet, masters of fire; and marids, masters of water— to create splendid and destructive displays of elemental might.

Chat, what the fuck does this mean?

Paladins, at least in 5e, swear oaths embodying or rooted in an ideal. glory, devotion, conquest, redemption, even slightly more nebulous ideas of being a watcher or devout to the ancients, I buy that. But 5e doesn't really do oaths in devotion to *beings, * besides more broadly in the devotion subclass. Perhaps your oath is sponsored by a god that has the same ideals, though did away with a diefic sponsor like that being necessary.

But genies aren't even gods, they're just powerful guys really. You might reasonably kill one in your game! And more importantly, there isn't even the vague notion of an ideal involved, which feels necessary to a Paladin subclass. It feels like a very forced mandatory elemental subclass.

I think it's just a framing issue. I could understand something framed more along the lines of the ancients Paladin, but instead of grass and shit it's even more ancient, the founding of all creation in the essential elementals, like "oath of the primordial elements". It feels more like a Paladin thing, but I could buy it.

That's it, that's the whole complaint. Paladin genie simps is an incredibly weird framing of an oath.