Thinking that "we will see improvements" is inversely proportional to intelligence, but, well, it's the same whether now, 10,000 years ago, 1,000 years ago, 100 years ago, or 100 from now.
Don't get me wrong. It, the mistake is not the byproduct, it is the other way around, these surrogate activities are the byproduct of human error (disbelief, doesn't have to be from your ancestor, it could be someone your ancestor met, and had to adapt by moving further, like to a colder place which is more stressful/necessitates more work), by sheer 'biological' necessity. As primitivists believe in a primitive world that doesn't exist: (and, by extension, never existed, and never will, because the past is your memory and the future is your imagination) the first human being was a monotheist.
In my humble opinion imho truly intelligent is a decelerationist anti-accelerationist anti-modernist anti-transhumanist bioconservative Primitive (anti-primitivist, in the Traditionalist/perrenialist sense) - like me, haha!