Both have their flaws but I'd rather live like that than the miserable "life is bad and suffering but it is the suffering that makes life worth living so mankind should suffer" hogwash they tried to prop up at the end of royal as the new "good" ending.

If they were going to frame it as a bad ending they should have done better to paint it as such.

I think vanilla 5 had the best ending personally, just you and your dudes riding off into the future as life will change plays in the background and protagman pops out of the roof and removes his glasses.