True but the Dark Forest hypothesis suggests even if primitive why would you wait for another living being to potentially exponentially grow technologically and threaten your existence or perhaps be advanced enough to let other civilizations know of your existence and perhaps an even more advanced civilization destroy you.
This discusses it more. Fun rabbit hole to go down.
Aliens, The Fermi Paradox, And The Dark Forest Theory: A Game Theoretic View
Drake’s Equationtowardsdatascience.com
Like in Battlefield Earth!
Which is a horrifying thought considering how awful the movie was.