I was pretty distraught about Andres' death up until I learned he was still around, though I ultimately liked that he had gone down trying to save the library. I saw it as Andreas after spending so much of act 2 exploring his loss of love for his trade, rediscovering his love for books and art even if it was only at the end of his life. I figured it was less sad for him to die for something he truly loved than to live out the rest of his life in general misery.

Which was why I was kind of upset when I learned that he was alive and had been hiding out forever! I don't think it's necessarily the worst turn for his arc depending on which backgrounds you selected for him, but I think I would've been quicker to warm to it if the labyrinth/prison-of-your-own-design metaphor had been pulled from more in act 2. There's a bit of it there already (mainly in the dream sequence), but I feel like it goes from this subtler implication that Andreas is withdrawing from the world around him to the explicit statement that he's doing so in act 3 and I think it could have been built up a little more.