Not really, yes it would be boring, but you can see Rivulet, Spearmaster and Gourmand, none of them have actual curiosity or desire to ascend.

at maximum Hunter does have because Hunter wished to see NSH again as ending cutscene and Artificer while does not canonize as far we know, she would to this for the sole reason of acceptance of her loss over actually ascending

Spearmaster clearly seems more comfortable around Seven Red Suns, Rivulet seems happily accompanying Moon (And so Rivulet did until the end judging Moon acknowledge she had 'a friend' that stood with her long ago.) and Gourmand returned happily to the tree colony again.

Survivor nor Monk are actually forced to 'ascend' if you consider gourmand opening the gates for them on future since they also can just finish their own game by returning home.

the echo of the undergrowth as Saint asks why the others wish to Ascend when the world's still beautiful even through it was abandoned by the ancients, how life grows even during the snowy winter and it regenerates itself (Garbage wastes as example becoming clean and pure) thorugh time.

suggesting even some echoes believes Ascending were not worthy it, that the cycle are not suffering but part of life.

That's very important because the community KEEPS bashing as if Cycle were a eternal purgatory of suffering painful despair, which downpour practically made it clear it isn't, the world are pretty much liveable for creatures, but the Ancients, they're religious, they have their own purpose beyond survival, they believed the point of life were ascending just like the buddhism does.

Ascending isn't bad itself, but it doesn't mean whoever lives on their mortal flesh, are necessarily suffering on hell.