Holy crap.
That makes it even far worse than I thought. They really suck at this.
The first appreciable signs of life on the planet appear at least 3.3 billion years ago. Three. Billion. Years.
If they could afford to wait that long... what kind of feeble-ass beings are the Creators anyway? They have every reason to be afraid of us. We are the Singularity.
The Celestials were also said to have messed with humanity, but they did it 600,000 years ago.