I've watched the Matrix trilogy for the first time a couple months ago and this question has been on my mind ever since. Zion seemed to be at max capacity, and there was no explanation as to whether there are plans to rehabilitate and feed the immense mass of people should they succeed in their plans to defeat the machines and free all of them. Then, I can't imagine that all of them will be too happy to have left the Matrix and been plunged into a dystopian hellscape with a rapidly shrinking window to survival. It's going to be a bloody atrocity right there, no doubt about it, and someone's going to resurrect the machines, or at least attempt to do so.

Realistically, it seems like the Zion leaders were rushing into disaster and a bloodbath headfirst without any regard to consequences and current inhabitants of Zion, and it was being portrayed as a positive struggle. I, for one, got reminded of the current cohort of accelerationist capitalists.

As an aside, the first movie was good, but 2nd and 3rd...…