A fun thought experiment is describing modern living to someone in the early Georgian era in an uncharitable way. It would be relatively easy to sell it is a godless industrial landscape. A city dweller could feasibly go days without seeing a tree or even leaving their apartment. Threat of annihilation looming over everyone's heads and the various major armies that can reach out and do what they like in most parts of the world. Constant risk from authoritarian ideologies that spread like wildfire.
The future is always scary. The present is pretty scary. The past was much less comfortable.
You are right. But I thinking it's fair to say that industrial progress did have some consequences that could be easily prevented. Mostly at the beginning.
But I do not like this alarmist view either. It's usually useless and just make people feeling more endangered which is not a good prerequisite for racional debate. I would be worried more not about the technologies it self but by their human overlords.
The future is always scary. The present is pretty scary. The past was much less comfortable.