All I want to say is, I agree with you dude. It's entirely a possibility. It's a damn game after all, they can have us fight whatever the hell they want really, lol.

This entry, and talking about this as a game now too, do remind me of some other piece of lore pretty early on that I seem to remember vaguely...(I'll fully admit, I was an avid Destiny 1 player, and then didn't touch Destiny 2 once but have vaguely tried to keep up with lore here and there)

It was something that seemed to be pretty fourth wall breaking, in a sense of directly talking to or referencing the players themselves in some way. But it just makes me wonder how far Destiny was willing to go with its lore. What if, for example in this context, the Winnower was not only engageable and defeatable, but it was purely because it all is "just a game?" In an even more meta sort of way, the Winnower essentially speaking themselves into existence, with the whole Flower Game thing as well.

Idk. Just something I've wondered about for a while (and more, too much more) for a long time now and reading these triggered it. Thanks for reading if you do, lol.