That felt like even more of a direct jab at Snyder’s Watchmen, but it was probably just a jab at all of humanity in general.
In the ep’s flashback to 2009 (the year of the movie’s release), Adrian Veidt calls people idiots for relying on reactors, and asks why they feel the need to keep building bombs.
While that side of the argument appears to be pretty convincing – SPOILERS are coming – there IS one particular moment in Episode 8 that felt like a playful middle finger aimed at Zack Snyder’s altered Watchmen ending for the film, which swapped out the world-altering squid hoax to center on nuclear reactors.