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He was exterminated because he was a human who purposely tried to become a youkai. He became a youkai by way of a taboo ritual, and he even tried to harm Kosuzu as well. The guy was incredibly high risk, and you know he was. And if word got out about his 'rituals' to become youkai, many more humans would have become like him too, and that would have ruined the balance of Gensokyo. Did you know the '4chanteller' hated the way Gensokyo was too btw? Why do you think he hated the state of Gensokyo? He had gathered some pretty serious and daunting information. The hidden, and dark secrets of Gensokyo. He may have been acting out of ignorance, he may have been truly acting out of a sense of justice, but regardless he was an incredibly high risk. He was not trustworthy, at all. He deserved to die.

And yes, I'm very sure it wasn't created by and for youkai. Here's something from the wiki: "Gensokyo was originally a desolate, haunted region of Japan ages ago. The youkai that lived there began to terrorize the surrounding lands, and thus powerful, heroic humans were sent to exorcise and exterminate them. The off and on battle between humans and youkai continued on until 1885 A.D., when Gensokyo was sealed off from this increasingly scientific and skeptical world with the creation of the Great Hakurei Barrier. There has been little contact between those societies ever since."

So as you see, it's whole purpose is to preserve the supernatural, which includes youkai, but not purely for youkai. It also includes gods, hermits, youjuu, and all sorts of supernatural beings and objects. Something you should remember, the relationship between humans and youkai within Gensokyo are just fine. They live peaceful lives and have their senseless yet non-lethal battles there. However, it is to me that the person in control is clearly looking more after the youkai than humans. What I'd want to see is the human and youkai population be more even. And for random humans to not be provided as food for youkai. Unless there's some justification that those humans were all truly worthless and bad, I can't say. After all, it would be doing humanity a favor if they were right? In the end it's up to speculation, your head canon.