What would the incentive be for this?
I feel like people look at aliens from a perspective that holds us as humans in a higher light that they probably would. If they're on some next level technology, then I really can't see them ___s giving half a **** about Earth.
Or maybe we even think of technological advancement in a way that too grounded in what that means for us. Like we think aliens and think spaceships and rayguns and ****. How do we know that our early technological advancements haven't boxed us in, while aliens have been working on stuff that serve a different purpose and would be of no interest to us?