I think it's easy to say things like that looking from the outside. Especially since they probably don't know anything about this 'orb' business. They don't know what'll happen once it's gone. Do we even know?

They're going to try to fix it, obviously. But they have more knowledge about how the [ system works, probably, than these people, at least in broad strokes. The people here ... All they know is that this is all they've ever had. Probably. ]