Agreed to all this, and there is an Orwell novel that is far more relevant to the modern situation than 1984 and that's Animal Farm.
Seriously, a dystopia that follows "Current Year" trends would be nothing like 1984. Instead, it'd be a scary mix of Animal Farm and Brave New World spiced up with the rampant corporatism of Demolition Man.
1984 worked for the context of the time it was written. World War II had just ended and the Cold War was just beginning. Much of mainland Europe was still in tatters and recovery efforts were kind of slow outside the territories covered by the Marshall Plan (West Germany, Italy, and Japan) and there were still concerns that liberal democratic societies like Britain and France could easily fall to Soviet-style communism or Franco-style fascism if a second great depression or World War III broke out.
Brave New World was much more accurate in its depictions because it wasn't predicated on era-specific events like World War II or the rise of Stalin. Huxley knew the human condition all too well and figured that for a prosperous liberal democratic republic to become a dystopia, they'd use promises of pleasure instead of threatening violence and imprisonment.
Animal Farm is far more relevant than 1984 based on the fact that it inadvertently predicted the effects of intersectional leftism, Critical Race Theory, and left-wing Identity Politics in general. Animal Farm was meant to be a satire that was a condemnation of the Russian Revolution and the acts of both Lenin and Stalin (Napoleon being a hybrid of those two figures, Old Major being Karl Marx, and Snowball being Leon Trotsky) but it predicted intersectionality theory entirely by accident.
Maybe this is because I've learned the hard way that one should not become overly wrapped up in political bullshit but I've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter anymore.
It don't matter. None of this matters..
Whatever happens will happen and there's nothing we can do about. All we can do is focus on our own lives and enjoy what we can. C'est la vie.