The vast majority of evolutionary complexity has evolved in the past 500 million years. That's what I meant by "interesting". Things like flowering plants. It has absolutely nothing to do with our branch of the tree of life. So I'm not sure where your accusation of narcissism is coming from.
For all I know a flowering plant will develop a brain and become sentient in the next 200 million years.
For all I know a flowering plant will develop a brain and become sentient in the next 200 million years.