So would I. But the jist of all this is ideology.
No, the jist of all this is business. George and Francis had some ideas, but in the end George saw those ideas getting in the way of a marketable story, so he dropped most of them and made Star Wars, and Francis kept most of them and made Apocalypse Now. Both got famous, both got rich, neither really changed society, but that’s because movies don’t change society.