I agree, I do think it is outdated there but I think it goes further than that and that it is a wedge to specifically dismantle class conflict. The idea that office workers are not proletariat is heavily ingrained and I believe a lot of this is on purpose to prevent any solidarity between manual labor and office workers.
It's great. You're in charge of a command economy and you're building a workers paradise. To me it's like a combo of simcity and transport tycoon. You can tell the game was made by libs but it's not really anti communist.