Yes we had and I was very glad to see your name pop up again too. =)
Making Gale a hero, is kind of devaluating his whole story. Gale's belief that he needs to do that one big thing to change the world for the better, is what drives him to either offer himself up as a heroic sacrifice or to go for the Crown. But this belief is ultimately fuelled by his critically low self-esteem, which is his worst flaw, his opinion that he as a person cannot to anything to change for the better and he needs some kind of power to be worthy (even if it's just the explosive power of the orb.) So both his God and his Bomb endings cannot be good ones. In his human endings he deliberately steps out of the limelight and takes a stance that he is still brilliant, but does not need the public acclaim. He is just doing his thing to help, enjoying it and that's enough, be it as a teacher, or an adventurer, raiding through the hells, or building a community for a bunch of vampires. I think that is ultimately an awesome message.
Coming back to the original idea of the thread, I think what is most "problematic" about the current good ending, is that it contradicts the general moral of the narrative. In all the endings "ascension" isn't a good thing, instead trusting in your friends and drawing from the power of your group is generally framed as desirable. Lae'zel has a bunch of dialogue about it. So that it is weird when in the end, some form of ascension is necessary after all, and some big sacrifice outweighs the power of the group.
I do like Orpheus to take the fall for several reasons but one high up on the list is that he too does not believe himself to be so special. When Lae'zel is desperate that without him there can't be a revolution, he tells her that she and the other githyanki can do just as well without him. This brings the idea of finding strength in yourself and your friends back into the story again.
