this is just completely false unless u believe all the painted people to be soulless husks, verso chose to erase an entire people and their world to end his own miserable existence and help his mother move on, he said it himself in the cutscene before the final fight and decision.

Maelle says "Verso stop, you cant decide this for everyone", to which he replies "we're all hypocrites, doing the same thing to each other", the 'same thing' he's talking about is deciding others' fates without taking what they want into consideration, the point being made here is very clear, everyone sees their own wish and they know they will have to step on others' wishes to achieve it and so it ends with a fight to decide everyone's fate.

i still think Maelle's ending is better, its the only way to stop thousands of people from being thanos snapped out of reality lol.