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Most of this post is going to be speculation.
>What if there's no sentient species that's developed advanced enough to make the probes and stuff at the time when the universe is close to ending?
It's likely that this is part of the "possibilities", i.e., it is exceedingly unlikely that the being that basically "chooses" how the universe will look like will make it so that a sentient species won't appear at all -- or perhaps that's not even part of the possibilities, and it's 100% bound to happen no matter what.
In the ending (pic related) you can see (we didn't get to, Pomu and Elira obscured the latter) a timber forest with creatures huddled around a campfire. The extent to which the player's memories can affect the new universe is played with in the ending to the DLC, and this is also where the idea that the player's memories force sentient species into existence comes from.
>What if every species at that time is underdeveloped or the ones that were developed enough were too busy fighting some kind of space war or getting killed off by some super disease?
But that's exactly what happened, isn't it? The Nomai died off. And yet the Eye started sending its signal so early on that a new species (the Hearthians) went from simple fish to spacefaring bipedal humanoids before the end.
It could also be that the Eye knows when a sentient species will ultimately enter it and the end of the universe is timed around it, though that's a bit too animistic for my liking.

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