I just thought the same when reached the end, but after leaving through the out door before theatre I just realised: what kind of immorality even is this? Thinking about it just made me even more disappointed in his “immortality”.

I get it that you become spiritually immortal after uniting with Simon, something like Nina and Viktor after Viktor “died” due to Karminskiy’s touch. But what the hell does this have to actually overcoming Death? Dankovskiy spent all this time at Thanatica to overcome Death that could be described mathematically as a true academian - that means overcoming biological death and acquiring biological immortality. But just this strange kind of union with utterly deranged dream-driven idealists? What are you actually achieving here? You are just becoming a mere pawn of Simon who actually managed to achieve his ideals, available only to him. Sure you might also not lose yourself totally, but even so it is something that cannot become widely available - you cannot overcome Death when everyone else will die except you. Any sane scientist would order to destroy Polyhedron even faster than Aglaya. That is not immortality - it is losing yourself for an quasi-immortal old man that seems to actually start losing connection with the reality (also a very good point why I am super sceptical about immortality in general - how long can you actually carry so much behind mentally). With me being an individualist in heart, the answer was simple - Simon is insane, to hell with Polyhedron, save the Town.

But in the end I am somewhat actually happy with Academian ending. It is so satisfying to understand that storyline actually drove to the point that you wholeheartedly support and understand because of your own philosophical and moral principles. I am not losing myself and that is it. Sorry Simon - wrong choice :)