The OP’s argument can be modified to be immune to your objection:
Technical alignment is harder than capability research. Technical alignment will take longer than we have before capability research kills us all.
This too seems like an improvement. However I would leave out the “kills us all” bit as this is meant to be the last line of the argument.
The OP’s argument can be modified to be immune to your objection:
This too seems like an improvement. However I would leave out the “kills us all” bit as this is meant to be the last line of the argument.