On average, most people learn more from negative visions. But all it takes are a few people to internalize and chase a genuinely inspiring and challenging vision to save the world for another few decades!
Counterpart seems promising!
Essentially no spoilers (I only just started myself) but in the first episode I was like "Why are there masks?", in the second episode I was like "Hmm...", and by the third I was like "Oh no, so familiar", so there indeed seems reason for the masks