Listen to the Rain

Sure, and LoE is doing that because it isn't about cosmic horror at all; it's about humanity's inhumanity masquerading as unsolvable and incomprehensible cosmic horror projected onto the Other. So much easier to deal with fellow sentients if we can pretend that they are alien aliens, and that we are not only justified in dropping depth charges on their reefs, but telling ourselves that they don't feel the pain of genocide like real true humans.