Fully agreed. And to add on top of that, the world cannot take adequate care of all the children in it right now, and there are voices shouting we need more?

Well beyond taking care of the elderly, we need still need young healthy people to do the manual physical labor. Like crawling around in attics, laying asphalt, working in hot sun, etc.

Philosophically I agree, but Kurzgesagt did a video on how population collapse would probably be a terrible experience to live through. The book Sapiens makes a good point that we likely lived better and more fulfilling lives before agriculture but it’s a cultural/survival trap we couldn’t escape.