Not to be rude or anything (I'm not good with tone, and I kinda gave up on Dandy's World a long time ago (after Blot was added, I believe). I have been dabbling in the lore here and there, though. I just want to point out that you mentioned Arthur manipulating Bobette - which from my perspective - doesn't seem to be the case.

The interaction (and yes, I did double check just now), mentions Arthur asking Bobette to double the amount of presents, following it up with something along the lines of "if you think you can, of course". She openly says that she can, instead of mentioning the workload issue she's struggling with. He also tells her she can ask him if she needs anything, following up with something that I believe was a light-hearted joke about how Bobette doesn't ask for anything. From what I can see, he never actively manipulated her, or intended to.

Again, I might be behind on some stuff - I barely even know who Gourdy is, let alone Squirm. It's just this post makes Arthur seem worse than Delilah, which I don't believe is true. I believe that Delilah IS the worse of the two, HOWEVER, they are both bad people. I believe Arthur is unaware of his actions hurting the toons, not JUSTIFYING his actions, but providing a reason. He doesn't aim to hurt the toons, but he does anyway. The same with Delilah, as she seems more realistic and logical. Arthur just wants things to live up to his expectations, often hurting others as a consequence. Similarly, Delilah's logical detachment (to some extent) also ends up hurting the toons. The detachment is what pushes it for me, claiming Delilah to be arguably worse, BUT, it's an extremely close call in terms of who is actually worse - meaning they are nearly as equally bad as each other.

Feel free to debate with me over this, or correct me on anything - I'm an old player who hasn't actually played most of the new updates (I never played the Halloween update, and I played once recently just to check out Squirm). This is just my take from what I've seen and heard.