It's pretty clear we're screwed as a civilization. As tech gets more powerful, the same people making these offers as well as the same people doing cyberlockers, etc will do the same with bio-tech, nano-tech and anything else then can extort others with. They'll infect you with virus to which only they have the antidote, etc....
Just because the tech ecosystem is now doing the same thing is wholly unsurprising and expected...
Adversarial evolution is the only way to evolve... We are just a product of our environment.
It’s possible for all promising pathways to last for hundreds of millions of years and then hit a dead end… just because a really big comet came by or some other random event.
However, we do have socio-economic pressures which are not being dealt with through technology like we deal with environmental pressures, so these still exist, and are complicated. Arguably more complicated than ever before. There's your economic strategy, social strategy, migratory strategy etc. all of which impact your and your offspring's reproductive success, in turn creating evolutionary pressures that lead to entrenching certain traits.
Evolution stops only when the current average is the best suited to the current environment, or when the current environment removes all selective pressure.
I explained what evolution is and why there are many avenues through which evolutionary pressures can arise and cause change. If the explanation is beyond you, that could be a me issue, it might be you didnt read things properly, it could be the knowledge gap between us is bigger than either of us realise. Either way, I've asked an llm (local and chatgpt) to explain my comment like I am 5, and it does a good job, so try querying an llm on the topic, getting it to help bridge the gap.
*edit* ive done the same for your comment and llms seem to indicate you were trying to raise a what-if scenario of "what if all this evolution happens and is nullified by a catastrophe"
if that was your take/question/contribution we are done here, as that's not a useful or thought provoking question. What if the sun blows up tomorrow. What if it is all a false vacuum and true vacuum forms in my big toe tomorrow and space time itself unravels before i can so much as fart. If thats our line of thinking we should stop wasting our time and join a monsatry, join others in a long standing tradition of indulging a pointless and arbitrary whatif.