I suspect it's the other way around, really: it might be really hard to develop out of the early stages without hitting a reset button. Yes, we're destroying the planet at the moment and it remains to be seen if we learn quickly enough. However, the first cyanobacteria repeatedly caused global mass extinction events by poisoning the atmosphere with oxygen for over 800 million years until something evolved that could breathe that poisonous molecule[0]. That is almost one fifth of the entire age of Earth.

What if the odds that most planets are trapped in early development of life for the entire time that it can support life are just really really big?

[0] https://www.patheos.com/blogs/daylightatheism/2009/02/bands-...