Good point.
Personally I’m almost hoping we don’t find life. In reality it would bring us to a dead stop. If we do find life, it better be damned primative if we are to have any chance of going near it.
Robert Forward’s “Saturn Rukh” lays out a pretty likely scenario of what would likely happen if we were to find intelligent life.
We need life we can eat, air we can breath, and water we can drink
How so, if it were that advanced it would be here by now. We haven't even noticed a probe.
Don't read much Sci-Fi anymore so I don't know your reference. Wish I had time.