I didn't imply a criteria of quality here, but rather I was trying to draw the attention to the fact that, as much as PP is a mash-up of influences, it also is a mash-up of ideas; whether it treats them well or not wasn't in case here but I should say that it is to me actually, while indeed not in depth, pretty effective at raising questions. That could be a part of the point; as much as the characters (well-read or not) use their own point of view to judge their situation, you're free to craft yourself your point of view about their society and to draw comparisons with yours, that's the point of any fictional utopia/dystopia to me. In this aspect it succeeds pretty well to me and that's why Makishima was an effective antagonist; because besides of the incoherency that you pointed out, his views about the society in which he lives is spot on, the measures he takes from his conclusion are the problem.

When I was talking about societal context I wasn't talking about the issue of worldbuilding but about the philosophical/sociological idea of determinism, that is the influence of various external factors on an individual's actions/reactions.

And throughout the series we're shown a variety of ways in which the system doesn't really cope. And no one picks up on it. Despite the fact that the enforcers are all essentially victims of the system and would seem to have more than enough reason to question it.

Well some of the greatest focus of the show (and of Urobuchi's work) is about how the general profit of humanity compares to individual benefit/morality and this society's foundations are based on the benefit of the whole rather than individual justice or morality.

Plus I take great issue with any attempt at social commentary that portrays the general population as so braindead that they're unable to recognise that a man punching a woman to death in public is anything other than a curious spectacle. That's just daft. Particularly when that same society features assault as workplace bullying (which happens right in front of our detectives and they don't react to).

Again this is a point about the influence of context. Take a look at this