Particularly compelling.
The tragic fate of Wells' Eloi was that they had devolved beyond the point of return. Their intelligence and will to act had atrophied from disuse.
Decades of lowering educational standards using excuses like 'job readiness', targeted destruction of attention span, ramping up the work week hours (including commute times, especially for those with multiple jobs and 'gigs') to destroy free time and make workers too exhausted for anything more than doom scrolling, like, say, organizing.
Not so much 'disuse' but a depressingly effective campaign hidden within economic 'science'. Again, the metaphor strains, it's certainly not what Wells had in mind, but the re-interpretation is chewy.