Without the results/successes of tech developments, we probably wouldn't have as much witch burnings and hunts.
Think about doctors walking around healing people, doing surgeries. That's basically what a witch does. Where else do they get their power?
the Massachusetts witch trials were 1692-93, and pardons only started being given out well into the 1700's
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-th...
There's also the critical theory about how the Enlightenment is only the Enlightenment in retrospect. During that time, it would have been a miserable existence full of broken and exploited people, and people believing in totally different realities and agendas.
It's like someone looking back 500 years in the future would would say "during the covid era science developed significant breakthroughs in universal vaccine technology"
Where as looking from today, it's all about vaccine/mask denialism, protests about 5G microchips, mass information, mass deaths (a lot of people died in the last 2 years from disease), etc.