Fast forward maybe another 2-5k years in human progress and let’s make the humans the aliens and some creatures perhaps like dinosaurs or maybe early intelligen

Fast forward maybe another 2-5k years in human progress and let’s make the humans the aliens and some creatures perhaps like dinosaurs or maybe early intelligent like pre-historic cave men but “beneath” human progress on a habitable planet somewhere within a 100ish light years from earth. What would happen? We will have sent our automated probes to their planet, programmed to find moving objects, large/small and observe them. We will measure all aspects of their habitat. Then what? We will sit down for tea and compare our feelings of pride? We will attempt to teach them something they don’t know? I don’t get it. It seems super binary to me, alien life will either be so advanced they are tourists or scientists observing us on our “nature preserve” ... or they will have eyes on our real estate. I don’t see romantic in-betweens as remotely realistic and never have.