Why? Because that's a large claim to make. One that is arguably very false. Or...if true, does not automatically mean that the alternative way-of-life would've been "worse", whatever that means.

In any case, I've come to learn that the inner workings of the Total War engines are like dark matter and the search for the Higgs Boson. That is, we are like the scientists in Geneva today in that we both are looking for something that we have such a low likelihood of finding considering its tendency to evade our epistemological grasp.