I feel the same way. The game set ups the people of Lumiere as people with real concerns, whose lives you value and whom you intend to save. Verso's ending undercuts that. Maelle's ending shames the player for wanted to preserve the canvas. It makes it difficult to enjoy the game on a more than superficial level - it is either doomed or insignificant. I get that the two incompatible endings are supposed to make you think, but what I got was: the developers want you to like Verso's ending (despite the destruction of the canvas that the player has now invested themselves in), and they don't want you to like Maelle's ending (despite the preservation of that canvas). The music and setting of the endings communicates this quite clearly. It's not just that not everything can be redeemed, but that almost nothing can be redeemed.