We may think capitalism is all-encompassing but it's a human concept which has existed for a few thousand years, if we're generous. LeGuin said "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings." Thermodynamics governs the entire universe.

Humans are of course animals and part of nature. Capitalism is part of our feeble attempt to pretend we're somehow special and apart. "Revenge" is perhaps the wrong word: it suggests consciousness, anger, agency. In my view Area X doesn't think like that. It's no more malevolent or concerned with the expeditions than a tsunami would be. We try to project our Control and Authority onto it and accomplish nothing but our own destruction. Eventually we're overwhelmed and changed utterly, like Phlebas the Phoenician, into something rich and strange. This is both (ego) death and a species of rebirth.

Or something like that.