Yeah, that happens a lot with regressive nutjobs. They'll describe utopia as if it's the apocalypse and assume you'll agree with them.

I would say that the point is this kind of sentiment from the manosphere, for example just these quotes by Andrew Tate:

Look familiar? Good for you if you get to live your middle upper class cottagecore dream with a hipster lumberjack that brings home everything you'll ever need. That definitely sounds pretty awesome.

But mostly this is about control and power of men over women, especially for women that aren't in the economic class to get to have shelves of unread books and the luxury of spending all of their time doing arts and crafts and making tiktok videos.

I see it as a commentary on how quickly times were changing back then. What's telling is what some are reading into it.

One of each, then!