If the economy collapses on its own, the situation will be less desirable, compared to a controlled reset, from the elites' point of view. In addition, a controlled reset can blame all the pain on something other than the design of the monetary-financial system (like a virus.)
There is nothing normal or stable about the pre-covid world economy, despite appearances on the surface. Inequality and instability were reinforcing each other, and each one was getting worse. The root cause was the design of the money and financial systems, which gave the elites an incentive to use state power to inflate and support asset bubbles, eventually ending up with the pre-covid situation.
(What a reset means, in one way or another, is that total financial asset values will become more equal to the total value of real wealth (goods, services, commodities, etc.) in the world. This can happen in many possible ways. Nominal asset values don't even have to come down, if the reset will be inflation-only. In that case, the values of the financial assets will just carry less purchasing power. As I mentioned, one way or another, the difference between total asset values and the total prices of real wealth will come much closer to each other. And this will be a slow, multi-year process, to make sure nothing catastrophic happens.)