Like everything, it's a mix of good and bad. Maybe it does bring many of the noncontroversial benefits of the modern world to people who would not otherwise get

Like everything, it's a mix of good and bad. Maybe it does bring many of the noncontroversial benefits of the modern world to people who would not otherwise get them, and maybe sometimes it can inflict other forms of harm to the indigenous people who are enjoying those benefits. Like everything more complicated than "1+1=2" or "the sky is blue", it's a superposition of a bunch of pros and cons that different people will all weight differently. Where human nature screws everything up is the brain's tendency to want to focus on one pro or one con and pretend like everything else doesn't matter, or ignore the fact that rational, informed people might still disagree on how each pro or con should be weighted when evaluating whether something is a net good or net bad.