how could we've been happy there knowing that we were leaving all these people to goodness knows what awfulness.
this is the exact reason why putting everything back the way it was has never been an option. it would mean god is still stacking the deck, it would mean apocalypse and the second coming and an expiration date on the universe. the end of everything exactly as god planned it.
aziraphale tried to do exactly what people are suggesting, fixing the system, and how did that work out, huh? it wasn't broken to begin with, it was working exactly as intended, nothing to fix, nothing to change.
it's all rigged, the entire universe.
crowley has been telling us so since the very beginning. the only reason they had the power to create a new one to begin with is because god was bored and decided it would be funny. crowley and aziraphale did NOT summon her, they have no control over her, she tells us so. she showed up because she wanted to, she was about to end everything, anyway, protests be damned.
they have been trying to live their best possible lives within the system for millennia, there's no way of gaining real free will while existing within it.
