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I might be reading into the subtext a bit too much, but I got the impression that the human society shown in the background was ecofascist. Hear me out, starting with the large-scale rewilding. That is a process that would require the displacement of millions (perhaps billions) of people from their homes. Whether that was driven by climate change or forced migration we don't know, but the implications are fairly grim. In addition, the geodesic dome we see doesn't contain a biosphere, but a monoculture carefully maintained by robots complete with over-the-top security robots for dealing with "pests," and the helper robot commercial we see (which heavily implies a capitalist society) shows a city with well-mowed grass lawns and trimmed hedges. From this it seems that humans didn't engage in regenerative practices, but rather allowed nature to reclaim parts of the world on its' own. This shows a humanity that has not embraced nature, but rather fully separated themselves from it.
This is a valid reading of the subtext. It puts the amoral and implacable collector bot in a more appropriate context as well.
It still has the solarpunk message that the modern world is headed for disaster and we will be forced to change whether we are prepared for it or not, and it doesn't celebrate the authoritarian aspects of the human society that serves as the underlying antagonist.