You must have watched a different version of The Wire than I did. Literally everything The Wire tackled was prescient — political corruption, the annihilation of the working class, the shameful public education system, cyclical poverty, etc.
You like what you like but this is a confusing take.
Mad Men and the Wire are both great, but as time passes the Wire feels more like a product of the 2000s (with great memes) whereas Mad Men is perhaps more timeless.