User blog comment:ElessarTheOnly/Oh no, they did it again/@comment-43447129-20190809181556/@comment-32882200-20190810112411

As I wrote - yes, they are more populated, but no, IMHO this does not add to the game experience due to poor balancing and ridiculous behaviour of the random ALifers.

So in my subsequent play-throughs I have kept the new ALife disabled.