When he says that bad technology is more evil than working technology that is evil, he’s unconsciously making the case for the transhumanist 666 perfect system, Tower of Babel, AI God, etc (making yourself God). It’s his values and motivation speaking through him.
Progress is the cover story for the real motivation (of which he is not himself aware), in the same way that building the Third Reich and stabilizing the state was Hitler’s cover story for the real motivation, which was simply wrath and a lust for death