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To assume our cluster of galaxies is all there is... and beyond it is an endless void, to me, seems rather egocentric...it's really no different than our scientist claiming that in a universe filled with hundreds of billions of stars, we're the only intelligent life out there.
On a final note...since the word universe means everything, we'd have to come up with a new term for a cluster of galaxies.
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You may want to compare your terminology with common usage. Exactly what you're calling our cluster of galaxies needs definition. There are several clusters of galaxies within the observable universe, also superclusters which are clusters of clusters. My guess is that the mainstreamers are not offended by super-superclusters and so on indicating ever higher orders of organization. The universe (without modifiers) includes all the stuff we are unable to observe or detect; however, the more useful contemplations will be restricted to those parts which we can observe.
The absence of a claim of there being other intelligent life is not the same as claiming there is none. It is good for scienctists to remain constrained by evidence.
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For those inclined to oppose human meddling with the structure of the universe or the composition and configuration of objects and groups of objects within the universe, consider:
Whether there is a limit to the magnitude of a modulation of chaos below which order remains invariant? Or, is order but a fiction invented by perspectives applied over finite, however large, time intervals?
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