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They've not had our help for tens of millions of years though.



That is besides the point. I think you'd agree that condition now and millions of years ago were quite, quite different. They were held in check by various predators, we eliminated. Shells weaken by acidification of ocean have put new new sort of organism on their menu (or weakened their prey).

The fact that our efforts of only several decades/centuries could return jellies to a state that was 10 million of years ago is astounding.




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