> there's no intrinsic advantage to being more like nature

It all depends on how you define "advantage":

Being integrated into the ecosystem, instead of acting outside of it like it doesn't exist or matter at all to our survival, and thus being able to survive long-term is a rather big advantage. Otherwise, we might become victims of our own "success" [0].

Now, if you define advantage very narrowly, as in "What's in it for ME?" then you might have a point, tho it's a very shortsighted and egoistical point which leads back to [0].

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...