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Basically it's social commentary that seems vague because it's at once blunt yet also not trying to beat you over the head by having a mascot character pause the game to explain the flaws of people.

I don't mean to stoke generational conflict, but really if you were around the 00s you would have picked up on what was being said in Nocturne and a bunch of other Japanese media with a similarly bleak scenario but pointed moral about someone being a vain or antisocial shit head not being exactly wrong about the issue, but not being right about the way forward.
.hack//G.U., Gantz, FLCL, Onani master Kurosawa, welcome to the NHK, Death Note, probably a bunch other I've suppressed.

>We know life can be unfair, we understand why you're upset when that affects you, but maybe making the worst parts of yourself the answer isn't helping.

All that said SMT1 still has the better storytelling since it doesn't try to suggest whether someone like Law Hero is wrong just for living well and being naive, nor if Chaos Hero is bad because of his hardships and desperation, it just hints their life conditions and consequences, leaving it up to you to decide if their ends were tragedies or due.