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we instead became hunters, stalking them to their hovels, before smoking, flooding, or sometimes even burning them out

I believe this is an allusion to the Vietnam War.

Didn't catch this, but yeah, it does seem like that was his reference

but it is never answered whether the robots are simply subsumed there's nothing left to want to leave, or if they really just wouldn't want to leave robot heaven.

Yeah I have some serious doubts about the OWI's honesty in its description, but will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Few bots bought into that bullshit. Sure. Some did. Older bots, bots who had lost their way and lacked a real purpose in our new world, bots who were distraught over the things they’d done in the war—they were the ones most likely to sign up.

Okay, definitely an allusion for religion. Does that mean the two big OWIs left are Christianity and Islam?

In many ways yes, in other ways it resembles republicans/democrats i.e. conforming to the beliefs of the party, remaking the world in your image of utopia and taking over territory. I interpreted this in a similar but more generic way as the OWI's being 'ideologies' of any kind, or the complex non-physical systems that these ideologies represent