>>24493970That it's a comedy with old woman sex jokes doesn't mean it's not meant to also be profound. Aristophanes isn't just mocking radical egalitarianism, the ridiculous scenarios that follow the opening also show the consequences of demanding radical egalitarianism. You could do and say things in comedies during the period that you couldn't get away with in any other context, such as criticism of certain institutions, politicians, policies, popular attitudes, how the gods were being worshipped.
And this true of all of his plays. Our version of the Clouds is a slightly revised version from after it was originally put on, with him chastising the audience for not giving it the victory in its original performance because it was the play he considered his wisest.