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To be fair, you have to remember that the story the that the first film was based on was published in 1968. It's basically a form of the "Seinfeld isn't funny" trope. Just about every work of sci-fi, about being able to (or not) tell human from machine has borrowed one thing or another from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or the first Bladerunner film in one way or another. It's basically impossible not to.
So I wonder if your opinion of it, watching it for the first time in 2024 could be colored by that. If all of those themes have been beaten to death again and again, satirized, parodied, meme-ified, then eventually cycling around to being cool again, then maybe you're noticing all of those things as the tropes/memes they became.
I would say like half of Rick and Morty episodes are a take on a Philip K. Dick plot point. Had I not read his novels before being exposed to that stuff, I'm sure I would have probably caught more about how poorly written his female characters were, for example. But at the time I was just too blown away by the concepts this dude had come up with that it didn't matter to me.
Yea, me watching it so many ywars after it came out definitely colored my opinion. Its like that with many "first" movies, from Tron to Metropolis, that the original appeal decreases as the motives and filmmaking techniques arent as new anymore, because of those movies. One would have to watch "generic" movies from that year to really apprechiate the innovative parts which then got replicated over and over.
I try to consume media in the context of the time period it was made, but sometimes it can be difficult to overlook some things.