that everything is sort of going to hell, and then before Shinji can get his shit together and do anything about it his dad achieves Human Instrumentality and human life as we know it is replaced with a nonphysical gestalt consciousness, and then after that allows our protagonists to finally understand each other’s trauma they finally feel happy for perhaps the first time in their lives, and then everyone claps. Shinji in particular seems like he feels better off after the world ends.