Okay so

Small Ingress rant.
I recently finished catching up with the story of Ingress, and I'll just say I'm a little confused. For those who aren't caught up to the most recent Obsidian anomaly, I'll explain to the best of my ability.
The Acolyte of the Enlightened and Jahan of the Resistance have found that the 13MAGNUS portal that exploded during the Shōnin ceremony was acting as a beacon to a new alien species, the N'Zeer. The shapers within the portals and the Acolyte don't want the N'Zeer to enter our world, believing they will only bring destruction to humanity, while Jahan and the Resistance want to bring the N'Zeer to Earth as quickly as possible.
This is where I got confused. I thought that the Enlightened were supposed to welcome these new visitors, we do, after all, want to enlighten ourselves with the knowledge and technology these aliens will bring. Have we become so close-minded that we will listen to whatever the shapers say? Heck, we know basically nothing about them!
The Resistance, at least my understanding of the Resistance, don't want aliens to be influencing humanity. Yet Jahan seems insistent on bringing the N'Zeer into our world. Have our interests flipped? Am I the only one confused about this?

~Jay