There ought to be more to life than sitting in a pod receiving sufficient nutrients from a tube, even if there was no doubt that humanity would in this way survive until the sun expands and makes the earth uninhabitable.
Even in a hypothetical world where AGI can do everything that humans do better, this would still be a choice to make, not an inevitable consequence for everyone.
And life doesn't require suffering to have meaning.
I was saying that human pursuit of understanding of things provides value beyond survival and resources.
Joint pursuit of a common goal is a way for people to better be-in-relation-with one-another.
What it does is make it a choice rather than a survival necessity. The latter is where the "suffering" comes from.