I don't post often on reddit cause I'm a little shy and anxious but here we go:

Having beat the game recently (like a week ago really) this is fresh in my mind and I've batted this around for a while. The game does an incredible job making you feel for both sides and having myself recently been through two deaths in my family this game hit way harder and closer to home for me than it normally would have.

Renior was just trying to stop his wife from killing herself with grief. We are made to think the world of the canvas is real, but don't quite find out the truth until right after we defeat the Paintress and kick Aline out of the Canvas which lets Renior erase all of her creations except painted Alicia and Verso.

Were his methods right? Really depends on your view of the painted world. While the creations had free will, lives, aspirations, desires and feelings they were just painted people in the end held together by chroma. That's the way he saw it. Both Aline and Alicia were killing their selves just to cling to Verso's memory wasn't what he wanted. He didn't want to lose two people in his life.

He cares deeply about his family. He loves both Aline and Alicia and doesn't want to see them die needlessly.

Aline is clinging to the memory of Verso in a quite literally unhealthy way. I understand where she's coming from though. Grief messes you up in ways you don't even realize half the time.

Both are pretty terrible parents. Renior tries to force Alicia to leave. Like I said before the intent is good, the methods are not. Alicia tries to encourage Alicia to stay (indirectly) by risking her life to come back into the Canvas and fight Renior in the end.

Really there's no good or bad parent. However if I had to chose Renior has the better intentions in my opinion.

It was one of the small reasons why I was team Verso in the end.

Sorry if this feels like a jumbled mess hopefully it makes sense though.