You have some good points. Of course we puny humans may appear to other "higher" alien races as nothing but simple and maybe ugly. But, just as someone said that there's no "proof" of God existing, there also is no "proof" of the existence of alien races, life after death (an eternal consciousness), or a dozen other things. What is proof? How can you define "proof"?
If you say that the universe just exists "because it had no choice", then you're saying that humans are the (ongoing) result of billions, trillions, quadrillions (whatever) years of try-and-fail evolution, and those that "adapted" to their environment the best survived and those that didn't adapt died, thus the natural selection theory and survival of the fittest. Am I right?
There's one problem with this theory. Creatures don't adapt to their environment, they live where their physical characteristics allow them. You can't take a herd of elephants and drop them in Antarctica and wait a few million years and come back to find wooly mammoths. Animals do not change their outward appearance to conform to their environment. Polar bears live in the arctic because they have been built to.
If evolution is true, why aren't there any "middle" species in existence? No more evolving species? Were they just eliminated? Why aren't there any remains, at all? Or just haven't scientists found them yet?
One more thing...look, for example, at the human reproductive system. How two haploid cells can join together and 9 months later produce another life. Is this just a result of millions of years of evolution? How did the early, early humanoids reproduce, if they did not have the "sophisticated" reproductive systems we have today? Certainly not by binary fission..

Or, did the early humanoid body somehow "decide" that it would need an efficient reproductive system in order to keep the population growing?
Please correct me if I'm wrong..I'm still taking Biology classes