User blog comment:The Milkman/End of the Line/@comment-2250460-20120703061551/@comment-2228120-20120703081448

Try some reading around, then - a lot of people have repeatedly expressed their issues with Control and Synthesis, mainly godlike powers and messing with evolution of all species. Personally, I believe that the Catalyst's solution is based on incorrect premises, that the conflict of synthetics and organics can be worked out on our own, without some supermediators, that solution achieved by our own efforts is more valuable than that achieved by space magic, and that perfect utopias never work.

- To clarify my point on the Catalyst, since the previous discussion is lost somewhere down there: the cycles are apparently designed to harvest the advanced civilisation before they reach the point when the synthetics might become a real threat to the galaxy - therefore, the Catalysts cannot really know how the situation would develop if left on their own. An analysis based on incomplete data can turn out entirely wrong, which I think is the case here.