The Tripod books also lampshade that in any interplanetary war the conventional war should be pointless - if they have spaceships they could've just killed us all from orbit but for whatever reason they didn't
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Either that or we may have already nuked ourselves But you're right, it's not about assimilation so much as preservation - the Masters aren't humane or empathetic at all by our standards and yet they have some sort of block against the idea of driving us to extinction
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I mean, in that respect the Masters' propaganda saying they came to save us from ourselves may, from their perspective, be completely honest
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