Harristotelian Logic

I've come up with a concept where the galaxy is actually full of sentient species shooting around amongst the stars, and life is so common, and planets that have life are so common that they are not considered a big deal, but still planets that bear life are considered important as exploitable resources, and often life fails in that species advance to a certain point then collapse upon themselves.

Such planets can be left to die out slowly or the advanced species can swoop in and put the doomed species out of its misery, where there are laws governing when they can do this, and a mathematical tool is utilized call the E.E.P. which is the Expected Extinction Protocol.

The advanced species leave primitive ones alone until they reach the make or break point and block their knowledge of the true state of affairs when they can as experience has taught them it's useless to try and bring a doomed species along while one that will make it, will do so without help, so it makes more sense to let them get past the make or break point in isolation.

The earth is surrounded then by invisible monitors as it is approaching the make or break point, and if it fails humanity will be exterminated, where there is no Hollywood ending possible, any more than a small tribe isolated on a little rock out in the middle of the ocean could defend themselves against the full might of the US
military—no matter how creatively writers might want to right a story where they could.

So no sleep code or other silly thing that suddenly makes super powerful aliens into easily killable toadies.

Now then, I think the concept is not removable by what we know today, but I also want to know if it's new to me.

So this is a creativity check.