We once read a book called "Feed" in high school - a ham fisted anti-capitalist book. Wherein citizens are 100% connected to an internet like service that only exists to sell them products. 90% of the class couldnt get it. Even when the teacher sat down and explained the entire plot of the book they still couldnt wrap their head around it.
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Yeah it's most definitely not an overt anti capitalist piece but instead utilizes a lot of complaints of capitalism for it's time that Huxley lived and can be seen as pseudo anti-capitalist with element of traditionalist reactionary thought. The noble savage theme I feel fits specifically for John and tbh I get some very weird and at times almost overt ubermensch style vibes in which he attempts to define himself outside of either societies but his drive for individual freedoms and liberation for the city dwellers doesn't lead to a positive result as they merely consume his "individualism" similar to how many today consume spiritual commodities without any actual adherence to the theory behind it. I think one of the key traits that I still find most interesting is that there is no true sense of freedom within either the savage society or the consumerist society and that one must be broken and molded into something befitting either one (the exile of our main character to a island of creatives so as not to disrupt society may be seen as a "good" way of dealing with outcasts but is literally just a form of a capitalist prison island in which they likely ensure no movement of rebellion can come form).
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Yeah it is weird as Huxley comes of as a hodgepodge of ideas similar to other sci fi writers during the time (or you wind up with outright fash like Heinlein). The book has quite a lot of commentaries for the start of what would have been the beginning of mass marketing and consumption as seen by Huxley and also borrows heavily from outdated tropes to communicate these thoughts (again John as the use of some type of divine man born beyond the current sin of the society he dwells in), and that these concerns do indeed com from a place of more concern for how it impacts their own social status and interactions than actual working class concerns (much more in the book is focused towards a degradation of human intellect/spirit with the low tier cloned workers such as the Gammas relegated as consumer cattle by all the characters with no actual ability to self actualize beyond their "station").