Ah. Time Lords face a similar problem; with the ability to travel through time, most think of themselves as 'immortal overseers'. They're arrogant with power and yet they refuse to use their abilities to correct obvious problems in the time lines of other species--'interfering', they call it--so instead they're content to sit back and bicker while civilizations are unfairly destroyed right under their noses. Nothing ever gets done!

...So you left, too?