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Nobody wants to exterminate all mosquitoes. Just the ones that bite humans.
I don't think that specificality really affects the argument. Any effort to reduce a significant amount of biomass is going to have untold amounts of consequences on an ecological scale.
Whether that's beneficial or not depends on who you're talking about.
Relevant rabbit holes for the lazy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory