That's such a frustrating false equivalence, and so is the idea that solarpunk is "punk" because its opposing cyberpunk. Cyberpunk was never aspirational, its a dystopian genre. There is aspirational near-future sci-fi, its just not cyberpunk). Its like asking if we would prefer to live in the post-apocalyptic wasteland from Mad Max or in the future utopia of Star Trek.
That's such a frustrating false equivalence, and so is the idea that solarpunk is "punk" because its opposing cyberpunk. Cyberpunk was never aspirational, its a dystopian genre. There is aspirational near-future sci-fi, its just not cyberpunk). Its like asking if we would prefer to live in the post-apocalyptic wasteland from Mad Max or in the future utopia of Star Trek.