We still have gigantic human problems that go unaddressed, I think, because people are now living in a virtual world (A Matrix of sorts) divorced from real world problems. And fantasy engines are the answer to their virtual world problems.
I guess that Jonathan Swift addressed them as well, with the Laputans, [0]
> The inhabitants of Laputa appear to be people completely cut off from life. They are so deep in abstract thoughts that their wives cheated on them all over and over, and servants have to periodically clap ‘thinkers’ over faces with bull’s bubbles and bring them back to reality.
> And science, devoid of morality and high purpose, is simply dangerous.
[0] https://jgdb.com/literature/study-guides/character-laputans
May be AI. Seems disconnected.