Pretty much. In all honesty, I'm not a YORAS fan. I was initially intrigued but the more time I've spent with it, the more I've started to feel that it's almost a conservative's idea of what a liberal's wish-fulfillment version of history would be. That might be uncharitable, but while the book is praised to the skies for its small-scale worldbuilding, I think it's philosophical conceits are contradictory and tiring; and its large scale world-building (most egregious use of space-filling empires in a major work I've seen this side of Man in the High Castle) leaves a lot to be desired.