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> My interpretation of the ending is not optimistic - they had to go to the stars to try again, but they did persevere in a way on Mars.

Humans managed to avoid the collapse of human society into hobbesian violence or "dystopian" fantasy while being tethered to our very real society and cultural conflicts, so that seems pretty optimistic to me. There's also star trek, but that depicts in a post-scarcity world that seems further away than ever. Utopian (in the imaginative, hopeful meaning and not the pejorative sense) sci-fi feels like slim pickings to me.

But yes, the automation depicted is certainly many decades ahead of us. Particularly in a world of enshittified, rented everything.