a model of what Moffat is doing with Doctor Who: a work about healing the societal/interpersonal/sexual devastation and stagnation in the wake of a war.

Could you elaborate on that some time? It doesn't make much sense to me as it stands since the Doctor mostly focuses on Earth and humans and they weren't involved in the Time War.

The hope of getting this story now is that somehow Bill can be Clara done right, that she can escape the preservation instinct that threatens them all.

Except with the Doctor now disabled that whole dynamic is reversed.