Maybe it's not about humans and never has been. Maybe by the time the gods realized how much of an issue humans were, we were already too widespread for them to destroy us without either running out of mana or ruining earth for everything.
Maybe the cancer is a god's plan, but it's not working well enough.
Sounds to me like the best way to progress at this point would be to nationalize the utility and focus it on power generation and management rather than profit.
And IMO similar could be said about many things.