Fortunately, these psychopaths see humans as objects.
And think that they can just do X and get Y result.
Fortunately, because we aren't that way, all their efforts are going to backfire so bad.
Freedom of choice is what is so important about this planet.
Of course they want to get rid of it, but they are going against the whole planet.
Not just "all the people", the entire structure that is this planet and all the psychic energies that maintain it.
This is what happened in Atlantis. The ruling class tried to control everything, and ended up controlling nothing... booom, reset.
I have to agree with your points though, tbh, I don't know much about Atlantis. It does remind me, however, of the military's testing of 20 effing hydrogen bombs over the course of 12 years at Bikini Atoll without a care in the world. It's like they're not even paying attention or considering the possible side effects of a blind pursuit of technology.