You are not wrong. There seems to be a similar level of responses too.

how could someone view this as anything other than dystopian?

I think you’re probably right, but a world where robots do art and humans do the tedious manual labor sounds eerily similar to the world we live in. At least, it is not outside the realm of possibility.

ah, the “Shane Gillis” approach

Are you one of those people who needs an authority figure to tell you what you are experiencing?

Life on the outside ain’t what it used to be…

But how can he reach maximum productivity if he’s sitting down ?!

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

Laraaji & Brian Eno - Ambient 3: Days of Radiance

Tim Hecker - Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again

Blood Incantation - Timewave Zero

Christian Fennesz and Jim O’Rourke - It’s Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry

PBK and Jim O’Rourke - Unidentified Again

Oreb Ambarchi - Grapes Of The Estate

Golden Retriever - Light Cones

Kassel Jaeger - Swamps/Things

Growing - Color Wheel

Most of these are probably considered more “experimental” than ambient, but whatever, genres are weird

Edit: formatting

Examples?