The discovery of oil comes with a huge blessings capable of transforming individual lives communities, states and even countries if well managed. But a situation where the proceeds are miss managed it will turn to be a cause as individual will rise against individual, states Wil rise against starts, countries will rise against countries.
You said it yourself. Oil brought about a lot of economic growth and the industrial revolution's propulsion, it also became such a valuable commodity that countries will literally kill thousands upon thousands of people whom they have no business even stepping foot on their soil of for this shit.
If we're only going to look at the good things that Oil brought to us, it's going to be easy to sideline all the slavery, mass genocide, annexing, and a lot of other war crimes committed by super power countries for the sake of the black gold. This I think is gravely unfair to those who suffered, especially in the Middle East, where most of the slavery and forced labor commenced during the 21st century.
On the other hand, if we're going to take all the bad and leave the good out, we're literally dismissing what meant thousands of years of engineering prowess that literally propelled us to the stars and beyond. Without oil this wouldn't be possible, and I don't need to even talk about the massive economic boost it brought about. We literally came from banging sticks and rocks together to make fire and keep ourselves warm to practically making rocks think and make money for us all thanks to oil.
This is one of those nuanced topics that you really couldn't get an answer out of. On one hand human life is precious, but on the other hand to deny advancement is also a transgression against humanity.