[2023] Is anyone else disappointed that Aurene was brought back to life?

Yeah, this was one of those times where the lapse in time between episodes gave people several months to process and grieve. That you can play the episodes immediately one after the other now works against that. It was something that was brought up during development (how it'd feel when released with this gap vs. how it'd feel when the entire season was available to binge all at once) but we were past the point where we could pivot. (Such is the reality of continuous live development.) I agree that having her return at the top of the next episode can feel too abrupt in succession, whereas putting it later in that episode (or in the following one) would have given it more room to breathe.