personally, I saw lestats warning before turning Claudia as projecting how he feels after turning louis. I don’t know how people watch Louis beg and hate him for it, yet sympathize with lestat for the same loneliness and longing that he took out on claudia , and also somehow believe lestat was the better parent ?? I like to think louis proved lestats warning wrong - louis loved her enough to change for her, instead of resenting her unhappiness. obviously he wasn’t perfect but I would comfortably say they had a good relationship because Louis wanted to be better. Comparatively, lestat always felt helpless because he forfeited his own agency and capacity to reflect to his ego