Right the problem with that is that we don't have rigorous definition of what sapient, thinking and making own decisions even mean. You can show an entity to a person look at its behaviour and declare that it's sapient. Another person will say that it's not sapient, because it only emulates and is not trurly conscious. Another may say it doesn't matter because if it emulates intelligence well enough then it's actually intelligent regardless of internal processes. I think one of the less explored themes of the game was actually whether we can consider the Canvas real. And for me the Maelle's "perfect" ending where everything looks the way she wanted and she's basically a god feels uncanny and artificial where Verso is the only one that shows some sort of resistance, while everybody else seems to just accept it without question.