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They could have lived the happiest lives imaginable and this happiness would not suddenly cease to be relevant.
Exactly thats my view on this too.

About Fandaniel (late game spoilers!)
Honestly thats what annoyed me a bit about Hermes. Yes unlike the Ancients the life they create does not have the chance to die when they want to but that is something he should know by now. Yet he still helps creating that life anyways. On top of that he really is not that better than the rest...he creates a "race" who is bascially forced to take in the emotions of the people around him. We can see it with our poor girl how much she suffers as soon as he feels negative emotions. Once she even said that she cant breath. Yet he still sent her sisters out. Did it really never occurs to him that the negative emotions on other planets could be too much? That the unknown universe could be really dangerous? Yet he risks their lifes and wellbeing just like the other Ancients did.

And when he learns the truth from us, learns what will happen, sees how his creation suffers he still sents her out into the universe, he choose her over everything else including all the creation that he and the former Fandaniel created. All of that dies in the Final days too.

He probably has one of the highest body count in this story, simply because of his creation, including his own people that surely had more that felt similiar to him.