The Preformation theory reminds me of Seventy-Two Letters by Ted Chiang. Which I recommend (the story and Ted Chiang in general).
Similar to how rna leads to replication, it would mean the world we live in naturally tends towards replication, having humans replicate is just a more complex method of replication through evolution starting from rna replication. Why do they need a straight answer? There isn’t one, you just infer it