"Trying to solve problems" isn't what the Fireflies are doing, they are *causing* problems. They blow up checkpoints, they torture people, they destabilize enclaves and turn them into bandits or worse. The vaccine is treated by them as a heroic reversal; it's not.
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That's what the title of the game refers to, that's why it's called The Last Of Us
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We can argue about the specifics of whether this apocalypse makes sense but a ton of what this kind of setting is about is the idea that high-tech civilization is really fucking fragile Everything depends on systems layered on systems layered on systems
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I think it's wrong, bluntly, and I think people are projecting a cynicism into the game that is not there. And - since fuck it, identity time - Druckmann is Jewish and we don't do that sort of "welp we didn't save the world so everything is fucked" redemption-or-despair shit.
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