I don't think anyone would be complaining about death specifically if Ultima Thule wasn't a thing, especially with Yoshi-p talking about how this expansion was going to be so extreme and shock players. If you want the main cast to survive that's fine, if you want them to have plot armor that's also alright, but to have such blatantly false "death scenes" when we all know they aren't real makes it feel downright ridiculous. We are supposed to sit here and believe that all the scions are making some kind of heroic stand when we know full well it's going to amount to nothing.