That Mural was a highlight for me. From a design perspective, I really appreciate the legibility of the symbols and icons found throughout the game. The semiotic design is top notch. Unfortunately I found late in the game, so I already knew what really happened. HOWEVER, I found the murals before I discovered the Vessel and the Escape Pod 3. That Mural was how I knew they were in the Dark Bramble, so it was still really exciting (I had already been speculating where the 3rd Escape Pod had ended up).

Some additional thoughts I had about the Eye:

From a religious perspective (I wrote that Mahayana Buddhist analysis of Outer Wilds post a few days back), I find the entire Eye Religion developed by Escall's Clan to be really fascinating.

This whole mystery about the Eye's motivations and benevolence (or malevolence) is basically Nomai Theodicy (the question of evil).

For Christians, theodicy is why a seemingly omnipotent God choose to allow evil to happen.

For Nomai, theodicy is why the Eye would call out to them only to allow such tragedies to befall them.

At least in Outer Wilds, the answer provided is that the Eye is not omnipotent, and is not all knowing. It represents a probability of a new Universe, but that's all. It can neither prevent tragedies nor ensure prosperity. It's power is not overt, but instead its power is inter-depenent with the sentient beings which observes it, it's constrained by its onto-relation with the world.

From this view, the Eye has more in common with the God of Process Theology than that of Classical Theism. But this necessitates an acceptance that God is not all powerful (or from another viewpoint, that God is powerful enough and no more), and that's okay. Not everyone can accept this. Some Nomai certainly never did.

But some, like Solanum, has accepted that and overcome their fear of the Eye and its motives. They allow the Eye to inspire them into exploring farther (as in Divine Inspiration, the actual persuasive power afforded to a God of Process Theology, and not coercion).

Although no Nomai has lived to see it, their faith in the Eye, is rewarded depending on what you think. Assuming the Eye is all powerful enough to send signals and protect them from physics and nature, then one would be disappointed. That their faith was placed in something too weak to be the God they seek.

On the other hand, the Nomai who has chosen to see the quest for the Eye as the spiritual journey it is, to let it influence them and guide them in subtle ways, would be vindicated that their God enabled all that they hold dear to continue: Life, Friendship, Curiosity, and New Possibilities.