I guess we subscribe to different viewpoints regarding this. I appoint no superpowers to our sages but view them as ordinary people (with extraordinary intellectual abilities) that were tasked as many have been, with the leadership of sending our traditions on to the next generation with a few additions/subtractions of their own predicated on their personal viewpoints. This happens in every generation, just a bit less so it seems, the further we get from the origins.
Our chachamim are not a monolith as is often implied but rather disagree quite often. In fact on quite a similar point we have a famous story regarding a variety of viewpoints originating from within Chazal:
“Reb Yehudah bar Ilai praised the Romans, saying how wonderful their government is. But Reb Shimon bar Yochai responded, “What are you talking about? These things that seem so great to you are really just for the Romans themselves, to help them carry out their evil plans!”
Two varying perspectives on the surrounding culture and the proper perspective to harbor towards it.
So how the enactors of this bracha would respond to it today is not perfectly clear. Therefore I will view it as I do, and you are free to continue viewing as you do.
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