Predicting Westworld: The Microcosmic God

Every week, Chris Plante swings for the fences with one massive theory about the future of Westworld. I’m taking over for him this week. Am I wrong? Am I right? We probably won’t know for sure for years, so why not enjoy the present?
There are two stories that keep coming to mind when I begin thinking about this show.
The first is a classic novelette from 1941 called the Microcosmic God, by Theodore Sturgeon. In it, a scientist engineers live in a laboratory: tiny people called Neote