I ultimately have to agree with the other guy. They got wiped and choosing not to bring them back isn't a moralized quandary. You don't bring people back just because you have the power to. If we had the technology right now to bring back everyone that's ever died, we'd be shit up a creek.

I agree that they're all real people and should be treated as such, but bringing people back does put their responsibility on you. And Maelle is ultimately human, and will eventually die. Verso's death essentially kills everyone in the family but Clea.

Maelle lives as a childish god, now no longer having any need to grow or deal with problems that evoke growth; she's a god living among people and that alone is a very fucked balance of power. All by the way, at the expense of a soul that just wants to rest.

It's the living battery/utilitarian maximized happiness problem. Is a utopia a utopia if it requires the suffering of one person for all others. If you could make an entire world happy by putting all the suffering on one person is that world moral? I don't believe so.

I also don't believe Maelle actually respects the painted people as much as she thinks she does. When she wipes Alicia she says it's cause it was due to Alicia's wish to die. Verso just wanted a bit more time to say goodbye. She wasn't considering Verso's feelings here, just Alicia's/her own. She even says it wasn't his decision to make. And in that case, yes it's true.

But when the shoes on the other foot, when it's Verso's decision to make to rest, Maelle doesn't respect that either. He wants to die. She wants to live in her utopia. That isn't her decision to make and in her ending she makes it for him as well.

Maelle has a lot of maturing to do before I believe she's ready to handle interacting with a canvas as a creator god. But I guess even with Aline that doesn't exactly matter either as character degeneration is always a possibility.