It gave college hopefuls a glimpse of living in a dorm and kids, who simply wanted to escape the reign of the parents, an extremely comfortable portrait of adult-like freedom. As with many children’s programs, the kids’ financial stability was a given.
It’s not that Zoey, who’s 30 in the film, is living a difficult life, by any means. She’s a producer on a—although her boss is an obnoxious man-baby who refuses to acknowledge her contributions. She has a gorgeous apartment and can afford the newest. She ostensibly has the same amount of guys fawning after her as she did in high school.
It’s not that Zoey's yearning for what could’ve been, if she hadn’t essentially ghosted Chase while they were in Hawaii together, is unrealistic. However, given the mostly comfortable life she has as an adult, it does make her a bit pathetic. I would compare the way she navigates adult life to how Carrie Bradshaw awkwardly exists in the modern world ofended and awakened right before the movie starts.