Scalable interstellar space travel being infeasible for lifeforms and even robots in a way that could actually be useful (given distances, odds, 2 way communica

Scalable interstellar space travel being infeasible for lifeforms and even robots in a way that could actually be useful (given distances, odds, 2 way communication, short time windows between extinctions etc) seems way more likely explanation than intelligent life being impossibly rare.