I mean it’s been a while since I’ve seen the films but I was under the impression that the whole “end of your species” thing was the last resort after they had tried repeatedly to avoid it. I could very easily be wrong but that was the impression I had gotten even from the films.
That every effort to preserve humanity had been tried prior to this but humanity keeps trying to exterminate the machines. Multiple attempts at containment and refining the matrix as a prison to keep them from destroying the machines and possibly themselves in the process. But that they had reached a point where it was clear that no matter what the machines did humanity would never stop seeking their complete annihilation.


I have a weird relationship with cheese. I love it, but too much of it together and it becomes something I just can’t eat. So like I’m totally this person because as far as like a “Quantity of Food” goes, both would be in that “warmup to what I’m actually going to eat” category. But that much string cheese on its own has become “Too Much Cheese” and the breading plus sauce breaks up the cheese enough to be something I can eat again.