I like your story a lot because it has a lot of parallels with my fav faith, or religion, its the multideity ancient religion of africa that says angels and gods are not perfect, none of them are, but the sum of them is what makes it all good.
Bizarrely, it turns out that it all fits with the physical system analysis which shows we need to switch away from using the energy of the planet, to energy from the sun, but the big challenge to doing that is getting rid of the profit driven system currently in control of us, which is an emergent property associated with us working for profit, it's alive, but a destructive entity that requires destruction to survive, but unsustainable because if we let it run to conclusion it will end with a burning planet, after downsizing us to a fraction of the force we would be of we went creative.
Its instinct is to survive as long as it can, regardless of how many of us need to be sacrificed.
Doesn't sound much like systems Engineering, sounds more like spirituality, but it is all formal systems Engineering, the two things, physics and nature are finally coming together to show us the way out of this unholy mess, it seems to me.
Thanks for your enlightening story, more from the spiritual point of view, very good.