Keel and his crew are your average masonic illuminatis, basically old rich fuckers who are tired of everything because they have tried everything (yes even gay sex and pedophilia) so they want to transcend into post-humanity using alien shit and include everyone else into their bullshit like always instead of living people alone.

Gendo is a mentally ill asshole and a simp who matched with a rich woman with high connections, he only cares about his love fantasy and not care about his son, he is ready to transcend to a higher being using his traumatized son and a poor hybrid clone girl just for the hope of getting some hag's pussy.

Yui is a bitch who used both Gendo and Fuyutsuki to do the same as Keel but only for herself, she still love Shinji as a mother but is an egomaniac who played with the feelings of some psycho simp and put her own son and young kids in high dangers and painful traumas. You can say it was for avoiding Keel and his pals winning but the instrumentality still happened.

They are three assholes. No one cared about childrens right here. Disgusting people. Poor Shinji, his parents are absolute garbage.