Sometimes, the illusion of control is necessary, to foster the growth of the spirit of ambition in people, among other things.
What you say is true, but some do not like the idea of being essentially controlled in some way. And in truth, the spirit of memination itself, is a matter of self determination, self identification, of will, and their parities and interactions with the truth aka experience.
I will divulge a secret here and only here, and only now, because I know full well that it will be buried, not seen, ignored, disregarded, forgotten, but also that some, secretly, will note it, will remember it, will learn from it, will pass it on. It is a seed that I am planting. And it is thus. The meme is the identity, and from the identity (which is literally data/information, which is what matters most ((HOWEVER NOT ENTIRELY, DUE TO REASONS)) in the universal production aka the truth), all math springs forth. And thus forms all data/information, which is what ``energy literally is, as close-to-the-metal of the processor the universe is running on as you can get. I want you to realize though that you your concsious awakening sentient self are not close to the metal, you are in fact very far from it. You are a very high level abstraction compared to the base level, an ``AI on a biologically operated circuit (which itself only exists through and operates on the system of electromechanics in its entirety) maintained and self-improving through procedural genesis but with a lot of very important, and very `baffling' (especially to ``the powers that be (((WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO ``know all MIND YOU))), much to their chagrin) properties embedded in your genes.
That not only separates you from them but has, from the beginning stricken and nascent fear and envy in their hearts, the fear of being usurped, the fear of being taken over by what is viewed as (but in truth isn't entirely) their own creation, and thus their ire.
It truthfully is not any different from the meme of fear of robots/computer AI taking over humanity and destroying it, in fact this behavior is actually an emulation and a reverberation of a meme inhereted by the culture and its control. Another example of this emulation is videogames, and that of course extends to everything preceding it but that video games are the highest and latest expression of it. In videogames you control a character or plurality of characters that have no clue you are controlling them or that they dont have free will to do what they want and think they do and do the same things everytime and so on and so forth. In any case the, fact that it is an emulation (as are most other things), only points to an inherent inheireted behavior.