No, they were never going to hand power back willingly, but there will be a larger shift when the systems they rely upon fail themselves, because nothing artificial can endure indefinitely.
>People of Earth, we want to familiarize you with a different civilization, a different way of living.
Lost me there. Not interested in some sort of new fangled sci-fi colonialism. We have problems, but we can deal with them ourselves, without appealing to shadowy new 'powers' like Satanists do.
Do you expect anything different from them at this point?