Hit the nail on the fucking head. The first Star Wars Trilogy is like that too, take away the technology and you basically have the young hero realising his destiny, and old warrior trying to redeem himself and the people fighting their oppresors.
I watched the Animatrix recently, the Second Renaissance was pretty fucking intense. The scene of the first robot murder and the essential slaughter of the human military kinda burned into my brain.
However that didn’t stop me pointing out that using nuclear weapons against machines would annihilate them due to the EMPs created and that nuking all human world leaders after having them sign a surrender made little sense.