It wasn't easy for us to figure out how to manipulate the physical world we inhabit and understand many of its rules... To figure out how another species inhabiting another world with different abilities and limitations would make the leap to technology is impossible to say. Perhaps an intelligent whale-like species with nothing like hands with which to manipulate tools would have patience to solve problems on a time scale humans could never accept... Perhaps they could spend a few 100's of thousands of years breeding a squid like creature to operate tools for them...

Who knows, there are so many alien unknowns... and perhaps it is presumptuous folly for us to even speculate on Kardashev Type II civilizations when we are just a Kardashian Season X civilization...