why was this considered a good ending?

Because it's one of the most powerful and positive vidya endings ever?

It's the climax of thirty or more hours of thematic build up.

because muh evanjellyon

Because it's fucking great.

https://youtu.be/DLAvHLQGOco

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>>381198934
How? It only makes sense in a meta way where you have to fight the credits with other players for a good ending since it's a Yoko Taro game, but otherwise it has no bearing or context related to the game's plot and characters itself.

There's also no way that they're actually keeping track of who deleted their saves and pairing you up with actual representations of players.

>>381199238
>It only makes sense in a meta
no
Pod launches suicide attack against his own programming and joined by other Pods who succeed in breaking free from programming

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>>381199238
>it has no bearing or context related to the game's plot and characters itself
It's pod 042 doing exactly as the player is and refusing to accept the nihilistic conclusions of the game and instead breaking them with a message of hope.

>There's also no way that they're actually keeping track of who deleted their saves and pairing you up with actual representations of players.
That's exactly what is happening though. Granted in a practical sense one persons save could be used to help more than one person because otherwise the names would run out at a 1:1 ratio but that doesn't really lesson the meaning of the act or its impact.

>>381199238
It's literally the Pod hacking, which is why it plays exactly like the hacking minigame.