I'm curious as to what made the devs decide to go in this particular direction.
Why is immortality treated as an unambiguously bad thing in this setting?
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It's very common, especially in this day and age and with a western mindset to treat immortality as a curse.
Probably because immortality is unambiguously a bad thing.
I never got that impression, really. Both among the various immortal characters in the game and those around them there seems to be a fairly wide spread of opinion on the subject, between the view that it's a curse (Komari and the kitsune close to her) to a gift (the overwhelming majority of demons who take a view on the topic, zhara seems rather pleased once she gets over the shock of learning who agni is. Definitely doesn't wish she was gone instead) with relative indifference or no normative opinion in particular in the middle (some demons, most of the seven, agni herself). Because of the nature of the game and how crowdsourced the writing there's very little I would confidently put forward as "the devs [collectively] decided x"
It really, really depends. I will never belive that life extension options are a bad thing: The ability to live as long as you want, and pass gracefully when you are tired, would be a blessing beyond any that we have been given since the ability to look at our reflection and see ourselves with bright eyes.
On the other hand, FORCED endurance would inevitably turn into "I have no mouth and I must scream". At the very least, you'd be stuck floating in the void, praying that Protons eventually decay and that your mind turns off.
That second one seems impossible in OUR universe, thankfully: Once physical form is destroyed, the mind seems to go with it as far as we know. So there's no reason NOT to pursue longer and longer lives, as long as we can fill them with meaning!
So it's not necessarily bad as long as you have the ability to opt out, in other words, or at least willing to accept the drawbacks?