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

[Lady_Silvermoon]

Well, as soon as G'raha decides to kill entire realities of other people to steal their souls to sustain his existance, I'll take him out as well.

I thought you were being serious given G'raha created a divergent timeline not knowing if he'd wipe out the people of the other timeline just to save us. Then I realized you assumed that wasn't a thing he's attempted to do before. That was awkward.

They're not people. They're a system. Literally not people. People are Souls+Memory, they are just PNGs saved on a hard drive. If anything, I'm annoyed that I even had to go through the whole waste of time to get to know them. They are as much as people as the recreations in Amaurot, which is to say that "getting to know them" is a waste of time.

Except that we watch the memory aether extracted and sent to Living Memory. When we delete them the look like dissolving memory aether. The aether they are made out of is soul aether. Therefore, they are memory+soul. By your own definition of personhood they meet the standard. For me, I'd ask can they think, desire, make decisions, have feelings, opinions, beliefs, the answer for all those is yes. They are feeling, thinking beings. To argue otherwise means you believe that the AI was puppeteering Cachiua into insisting on her own non-personhood and destruction. The characters also think these beings can think and feel because we put on a play to give the children happy memories before deleting them. They were thinking, feeling aether beings that we dissipated in hopes that it'd give us a tactical advantage. What we did was no different than wiping out the entire Garlean race so Varis has no reason to conquer people.