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They technically did "colonize" the so-called Middle-men (Relatives of the Edain who didn't come to Beleriand and fight Morgoth) by doing "White man's burden" types of colonization. They introduced writing, technology, and language (Westron is a descendant of Adûnaic) to them. However they never tried to occupy Middle-earth by force or exact tribute from them until they started to adopt a decadent lifestyle which required resources on the mainland, as well as militaristic adventurers establishing independent kingdoms and ruling as despots.I havent read the silmarillion in a while so i dont remember exactly but i think at the time the series is set men werent colonizing shit. The men living in middle earth were either uncivilized tribes or were friendly with the elves, and the shadow either hadnt started to fall yet on the numenoreans or had just started to, the only numenorean settlements in middle earth were outposts they built to resupply and give safe harbor to their ships as they loved sailing around arda. They were friendly with the elves and other men and didnt go conquering and making colonies in middle earth until after sauron had revealed the one ring and middle earth was in a kind of cold war between sauron and the elves
Of course they have to come up with their own dumb shit to make men look bad, they couldnt just toss a hint here and there and do the corruption and fall of numenor later
But you are mostly right. I am fairly certain they will make the relief expedition to assist the Elves and Ar-Pharazôn's crushing defeat of Sauron into a single conflict, since they have already stated that there will be a compression of events.