Yes. True. But if we only knew more of the story. I suspect that events in the past involving organic based and inorganic based entities were just as complex as they are today.

I suspect we have collectively forgotten more than is presently known or understood. I suspect that the amount of info that was forgotten is epic in proportions.

The memory of the cataclysms was erased, not because of lack of written traditions, but because of some characteristic process that later caused entire nations, together with their literate men, to read into these traditions allegories or metaphors where actually cosmic disturbances were clearly described.