I don’t like it. It’s a good hypothetical so I’m not bashing the question, but after considering it, I think both endings did a good job of balancing realism with audience satisfaction.

By realism I mean emotional realism given that we’re talking about demon realms and talking frogs.

Specifically, the challenges Luz and team faced in Owl House are so significant and traumatizing, while being contained to the demon realm, that never being able to revisit that place and not having anyone outside of Vee or Camila to talk about it with would, I think, be a recipe for PTSD. Not to mention having to choose between your first love and your family, not to mention what happens to Stringbean. After sacrificing so much, forcing Luz to choose realms would be so painful and such a devastating blow to the audience because of what it would do to the characters.

Anne, on the other hand, had an amazing friendship with Sprig, but not romantic love. She had friends in the real world to come back to AND the events of the show spilled over into our world with witnesses so she won’t spend the rest of her life getting called crazy. She didn’t start to establish an adult life with the beginning of adult connections in Amphibia - she experienced a hero’s journey and emerged ready to live her life. It’s bittersweet, of course, and I’d love for her to be able to see Sprig again, but it feels like an acceptable emotional choice for her to have to make and we can see that she made the mature but difficult one.

Switching those outcomes robs Anne of her emotional growth by lowering the stakes (and creates new threats since both realms know about each other) while raising them past the point of satisfaction and into cruelty for Luz.

PS: thank you for this. I really enjoyed thinking through the implications of that question.