Celebrimbor is annoyed at the suggestion because men are the worst and asks Annatar/Sauron to let it go. “Much of the misery of men is of their own making,” he tells Annatar/Sauron.
As of The Rings of Power season 2, episode 6, Annatar's manipulation of Celebrimbor has yielded several of the titular Rings of Power, while work continues at pace for even more nefarious creations.
That is the plotline of Sauron (Charlie Vickers) transforming from Halbrand into Annatar to fool Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards) even after Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) told him not to trust Halbrand. In ...