[Flyndaran]

Short answer is Yes.
It drastically underestimates the difficulty of pretty much every aspect of biology and engineering. It glosses over the rationality of "meat-bags" in space and the economics of the whole set up. So very optimistic in those ways, IMO.

It also has loads of characters committing suicide by way of "the forbidden thread topic" which I at the very least find horrifying.

The singularity at least in the way of baseline humans being surpassed and becoming an "obsolete" species seems inevitable and soon-ish. That seems a hint depressing seeing as how I am a baseline human on a good day.

It's a setting that evokes interestingly varied opinions and feelings in players and posters here.