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Your entire thesis rests on the assumption that the highly xenophobic species is the most advanced. Under such a scenario it would make "sense" for them to eliminate potential competition beforebit gets off the ground.

Another more likely possibility is that they are NOT the most advanced species, in which case going around exterminating everybody else would be a terrible idea, it would be like a kid in a forest going around poking hornets' nests, at some point they will poke the wrong one and they might get their shit pushed in by a more advanced xenophile people who see it as their mission to protect primitive civilizations for religious / cultural / ethical / environmentalist reasons. Maybe the primitive people were seeded by a more advanced civilization.

The reality is that alien civilizations can probably follow a large number of different cultural values and motivations that may be incomprehensive to us, because they are, well, alien.

Just look at Earth before globalization and the adoption of our current xenophile-democratic dominant ethos. Human civilizations had all sorts of extreme beliefs and ethics, from the radically pacifist Moriori who didn't even understand warfare, to the warmongering Mongols who would raze entire cities to the ground just to spread fear, to the fanatically religious like the Aztecs who saw warfare mostly as a way to capture sacrifice victims to feed their Gods, or the Muslims and Crusaders who saw it as their mission to convert everyone to their religion, etc.

Alien civilizations could adopt any of these ethical systems or even more strange ones that would be incomprehensible to us. We just don't know.