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idk I think it would've worked as a pseudo-afterlife for them except they're not trapped there. I guess it really depends on what they get up to post-3 because if they do just remain in Twilight Town and live ordinary lives whether it was the real or simulated world wouldn't have made much difference. But obviously you're robbed of Roxas and Xion getting their revenge on Xemnas if you go that route.

I do feel like the replica stuff in 3 is a bit clunky and they dedicated too much time to it. And it also feels slightly unnecessary when previous games established that the other norts can exist in the future without them like in DDD because YX is acting as a portal for them and ferrying them around during that game iirc. And like I said if objects and beings can leave the data world as established by the munny pouch and Sora's Heartless in Coded (nearly) then recreating Roxas, Namine and Xion in data and bringing them into the real world could've worked since their hearts were real and that could've made the rest of them so. Granted we don't know much about what happens when data beings leave their own world, maybe we'll find out with Strelitzia in 4. But there was precedent with data becoming real prior to 3 and it would've been less complex than all the replica shenanigans. I think it became too technical when it didn't need to be.