I would just note that the reason we did not find an alternative is that shutting down what are effectively, at best, avatars of dead people who rely on a problematic and sustainable energy source, seemed imperative to stop the AI driven Sphene. That's the rationale of the characters anyway.
Seemed. Seemed. We've fought gods, and we can't take on Sphene without shutting down the AI Cores which still makes little sense that I am aware of. I'm aware it was said in the narrative, but I fail to understand the logic. If one shuts down alternate functions on a system doesn't that leave more processing power for the primary program? Seemed. Seemed. Seemed. We didn't ask, we took it for a given because it was an easy answer.



Is it the writers who are moralising or players like you, who are screaming like a Karen when most people clearly understood the question the zone is asking?
Last I checked the principle basis of much of the MSQ is moralization. If you are comfortable with the questions as they lie, I encourage you to enjoy the game and look past the ethical implications in full. But to me this story, like other MSQ Stories, is full of morals and lessons to be told. To imply a lack of moralization here is to imply the entire topic was touched in ignorance of implications, which I would argue is even worse. If attacking me personally alleviates your tension I am happy for you, but I see no fruitful result of the exchange in defense of the narrative hole.