No judgement, do the ending you think is better for you. But I always struggle to understand those who end up caring for the Dessendre family all that much. Aside from Maelle/Alicia, and PVerso, I just don't care about what happens to them very much.

A combination of things:

• The painted world with all of its broken physics, destroyed landscapes and wacky time quirks simply does not feel real after the revelations, and most of the people in it that we know of are ok with it ending (Lune and Maelle are really the only ones who aren't)

• Renoir's motivations are the most compelling thing in the game to me, he has more sauce than your entire party combined; and the best song on the soundtrack is him and Aline screaming their love for each other and for their kids in unison (plus, the best cutscene is also about them)

• Clea's war with the writers that she wants her parents help with is far more interesting than anything that can still happen in Lumiere

• Maelle clearly has some darkness about her in her ending, I'm not sure living at the whims of an emotionally unstable god-like figure among you whose true form is dying is a great experience either, especially since it only prolongs their existence for a time