Pelevin was satirizing 90s' Russia and its emerging capitalist culture and his critiques still stand, because Putin's Russia is just less fucked up version of 90s' Russia. Trying to reduce his works to "satires of authoritarianism" is extreme cherry-picking.
Competition is won by those who extract profit now. Those who refrain from profiting even if they want to preserve the ability to profit in the future for whatever reason lose competition and are removed from making decisions. So only the most shortsighted capitalists remain.
Genets are bad example, because Viverridae are the closest relatives to Felidae. Convergent evolution would be better illustrated by fish and dolphins.
This is literally Budenny.