This feels like how it was reading Harry Potter as a kid vs as an adult.

-Which platform?
-9 and 3/4 platform.
-9 and 3 what?
-9 and 3/4 pla...
-Alright, I'm going watch something else.

See that's why I specify "the government" or "the big corporations." Also they're not conspiracy theories. As in "the pharma companies could sell you a cure for a million bucks, or a lifetime of treatments for a thousand a month, so they'll do both depending on your income bracket, and they will keep updating the formula to endlessly delay the sale of a cheaper generic that your insurance will actually cover." Because they actually do shit like that.

Is there some hidden meaning in missing here?

Nothing. It's just that I am too old for this mystery component. Something can sound magical and mysterious to me, but not like a stupid platform number. In my opinion it's more children orientated.

I was talking more about JK Rowling's right wing rhetoric in the Harry Potter books.