Me, a Replicant: 
Yes, the main characters in the book are obsessed with "keeping up with the Joneses" to the point where they own a fake robot animal just because they can't afford a real one because they live in an irradiated blasted hellscape of late capitalism, and the only job that pays well is to be a slave catcher. I think you grokked the themes of the book and your reading is sound
I think it's becoming clearer as time goes on that the people making the show and the people financing the show had different ideas...
G-Witch ending spoiler
At least they get married in the end, which is a sadly rare W for anime lesbians
Even more Based.
From the comiket only doujin by staff members who worked on GWitch
I'm usually all for Death of the Author , but fuck Bandai's exec's I'll accept the Word of God if God is this based.
I knew our guy was Based AF but I had no idea how based.
Lemmygrad and Hexbear
(we're the old guy)
I mean, it is, but not for the reason you thought it was
Spambot. Might be part of some kind of DDoS attack but our admins would have a better idea.
This wasn't the character I was expecting to come back
Edit: 
Also, we got new Hexbear CSM emoji's! Big shoutout to the people in charge of emoji's!
and the best one
Sadly I don't have credits, source here from r/Gundam
It broke against the forces of CIA funded reaction
Hey libs, go read The Jakarta Method.