The answer is simple really, but it might take some unpacking.
1. Woke is basically just deconstructing (tearing apart) everything -- every culture, every institution, every norm, every rule.
2. The 80s were 40 years ago, and thus it was when things hadn't been "blown apart" yet.
So yeah -- that's the appeal of 80's and 90's films in a nutshell. Yes, the poison was there. The foundations were undermined. But you could still enjoy a relatively normal life "on the surface" -- the earthquake hadn't come yet to destroy the whole city, as it were.