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That's not a political agenda.

>Politics (from Greek: Politiká: Politika, definition "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group. More narrowly, it refers to achieving and exercising positions of governance — organized control over a human community, particularly a state

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics

It's not a political agenda in the context used by the poster I'm replying to and the original article. Your use of the term would be equally silly (and 'supported' by the same helpful wikipedia article) if you'd said a review of SimCity has a political agenda because it talks about 'the affairs of cities'.

SimCity is hardly apolitical; it takes influence from the work of Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander.

That would be a trenchant point if the opposite of 'apolitical' was 'political' or 'review of a thing' was the same as the thing. Neither are the case.

Christopher Alexander the architect? He's not a political theorist.

Politics is, broadly, anything to do with interacting with other people. It's a recent phenomenon that only electoral politics is considered politics.

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