Yes, exactly. The purpose has been completed but ‘I’ still continue.
It happens a lot in the human condition. For example, in the USA, the water supply in the city of Flint was highly contaminated in ~2015. The government insisted it was fine, but they were covering it up. Due to the efforts of a scientist, Mark Edwards, this contamination was exposed and the government was eventually forced to help. Edwards was a genuine hero.
Fast forward to later, when the water quality had actually improved and had been up to standards for two years. Activists and protesters continued to insist the water was bad, while Edwards used his same sincere scientific investigation abilities to conclude that it was now safe. Yet now he was painted as a pariah, an enemy! All for pointing out (presumably correctly) that the water was now safe! (source)
Yet the activists just took on the mantle that “the water is bad, we have to fix it” and were continuing despite the facts changing. This was an approach that was initially useful and brought results, but now was no longer necessary. So they didn’t have to keep doing it – but they did and now it’s become harmful.
Same with ‘me’. Whatever strategies and whatever I did to bring me up to this point, I can’t really castigate it as being useless or a waste of time or whatever. It brought me to where I am now! I need a different strategy now to continue, but that doesn’t mean the past didn’t ‘work’. It did work, and now that it worked I do something else for the next step (although the basic method is still the same, enjoy and appreciate being alive!)
Similarly with launching a rocket, you need the booster to get it off the ground, but once the booster is depleted it would be silly to keep lugging it around as you go to higher orbit, it is sensible to discard it when it’s no longer needed.
So indeed, ‘I’ as the ‘human condition’ with ‘my’ millions of years of evolution up to this point was very effective at bringing humanity to its powerful, worldwide flourishing civilization of 8 billion strong. But now ‘I’ am just getting in the way of the next phase, the peace on earth phase, wherein every inhabitant will be living in a state of constant wide-eyed wonder and amazement… what a world that it can be! And we are the pioneers, it is up to us to take these next steps and broaden the path for those that will follow after us. What a wonderful thing for me to do, what a thing for me to put all my energy into to eventuate!