The thing that really pulled me to Golarion over the D&D settings is the amount of materialism it displays for a kitchen sink fantasy. The alien tech is mostly breaking down because of how old it is. The guns stick to black powder weapons of the same types as coexisted with full plate irl. Even with magic, once you take a look at how each discipline is learnt you can start to see the difference in integrations to different societies - the cosmopolitan Nex has tons of powerful wizards because it focuses of magical educations, while they're much sparser in feudal Taldor, leading to Nex having quite a high tech society compared to other places, and Taldor being relatively backwards as magic is reserved for those who can afford it.

It's definitely not perfect, and it's still recovering from the fundamental problem of being written by white men, but it does do a really good job of taking answers like "magic I guess" seriously and looking at the effects of that on societies. Like with real life though, you do have to learn a lot of the lore to really start putting together the pieces.

Will have a flip through Curtain Call though, that's a good shout.