Dawntrail's Final Zones destroy everything the story has built.

[Kaecilius]

They are not the being that was.

I think most of us will agree with this. The argument is that they are an entirely new being based off the memories, able to undergo new experiences and display sentience, and that does not make them any less valid for being a machine intelligence.

The main Endless we interact with is all too happy to euthanize the entire thing, *she* wants it to be done. But she does not necessarily speak for every single one of them.