Creator has said the interlopers are cowards. Are they indeed hiding behind their technology and on average much more risk-averse than humans? Isn’t this an even more extreme form of complacency? The complacent, attempting to make us humans more complacent? Complacent arrogance masking deep-seated jealousy and insecurity?

All of this is, in effect, true. The cowardliness of the extraterrestrials in your midst is mostly a function of the premium they put on their existence, being selfish beings. They will not sacrifice themselves for a cause unless they have great things to gain personally and it can be seen there will be a huge payoff for them. So they would never engage in the many acts of heroism for which human soldiers are rewarded regularly with medals, both when surviving, and given posthumously for those sacrificing their lives for comrades in arms. In this regard, they have no motivation to take risks in putting themselves at risk, let alone doing so when a lowly human might be the instrument of their downfall. This would be a blow to the ego which is all they have for inner motivation. So, in a sense, their reluctance to put themselves at risk in any way is a form of self-preservation first and foremost that they see to in a way that is, in essence, active even as the behavior called for seems passive to the outside observer, because they are literally hiding behind the scenes and not coming out into the open. These tactics are in service to their perception of their greater good in terms of survival so, in a sense, cannot be considered as being complacent. In a wider sense, with regard to their entire enterprise within the earth plane in manipulating and subjugating humans, you see complacency in the long-term contentment they have, simply manipulating humans to be maneuvered into position as a kind of amusement where they, on the one hand, thwart human desires by limiting their reach and undermining their institutions, and instead substitute their own perspectives of power and control to impose that on human society, and generate the same kinds of evil and conflict as happens within their own realms, when everyone is a criminal looking out for themselves. This level of depravity, where their enjoyment comes from the suffering of others, is maintained in a way that takes little energy because of their ability to manipulate people so effectively to do their bidding. So they use humans to make things happen among the humans within human civilization itself, and then delight in seeing their handiwork play out with the many points of friction, conflicts, infighting, questioning, criticism, hatreds, divisions, excessive competition, manipulation, and harmful actions leading to suffering of all kinds, as a kind of sport. This is perverse in the extreme, but the fact they have been doing this for thousands and thousands of years does speak to a complacency in settling for the lowest form of entertainment imaginable, where the outcome is all too often highly predictable because they are holding all the cards to begin with, so the outcomes, given their great power and control of things, is all but certain. The occasional surprise owing to human ingenuity and often divine intervention adds a measure of excitement to the enterprise, but it is largely an empty enterprise that for humans would be quite stultifying and intolerable.