About the Origin of the Qliphots

[TanukiMajutsu]

Hello! I've been reading about the Qliphot lately and got very intrigued by one theory that says that they came to be as a result of the more 'severe'/'analytical' Sephirot having grown in influence unchecked/having 'overflowed', in a sense. Since I'm assuming that the Other Tree would have to have been created prior to the arrival of mankind, what was God 'judging' so severely back then? How did He pass a judgment so impactful that it ended up forcing a whole 'inverted world' into existence? Or did I misunderstand and this theory assumes that humans had already been roaming Creation before the "Other Side" came to be?

Either way, I still have not been personally convinced of this version, and believe that another explanation must make more sense (such as there having always been two Trees, or that each original sphere ended up casting its 'shadow' counterpart).