Unfortunately the data appears to be pointing to this exact scenario.
It's still early days. I hereby issue my ultimatum to the universe: I demand closure!
But nowhere is it written that given enough time, a technology cannot be found to reverse this, no?
I wonder what the extremely bizzare beings of the future would choose -
Devote their energy to trying to keep entropy at bay to sustain themselves, or choose to try to create a Big Crunch - dooming themselves, while taking the gamble that another favorable Big Bang would occur, so that others may experience existence?