Ursula Le Guin, though she makes a big fuss out of the "thought-experimental" nature of her novel, and explicitly says that she's not trying to make a political statement such as "we damned well ought to be androgynous" - but even so, she seems to intentionally pad levels of ambiguity -- maybe even excuses, plausible deniability -- into any possible "message" of her novel.

One thing I've noticed in many more recent sci-fi and other-genre works detailing near futures of our world is the tendency for some of humanity's most animalistic and basic (as in low) behaviors to become much more widely accepted and popularized. In the Neuromancer, we have the entirety of Night City essentially run on illegal trade of drugs, data, sex, and other blackmarket operations and goods.