
Bro, yeah I want her to suffer. I want her to meet challenges and overcome them. Which don't get me wrong, I don't think it's stupid or anything to prefer a more lighthearted story, but I just dislike it when authors nonsensically patch together completely different tones.
Is Phil in any danger in the castle? It seems like nearly everyone she meets loves her, so is there any actual opposition to her? Does she have to carefully watch her back, or is the new royal princess such a joke that she can be humiliated without consequence? Speaking of, what's her deal? Sometimes she's a manipulative mastermind, sometimes she's just a girl deluded by her mission and sometimes she's a clumsy mean spirited child.
Of course I want her to have her happiness, but in a way that doesn't undermine the story. How about a little private tea party, with just her brothers and her new father? It would make her discover what it's like to have a normal family, not bound by politics, and it wouldn't put her in danger!
This kind of makes me mad. Why throw away any tension for how Phil feels at the palace for a cheap unfunny jokes about how much the Grand mage likes her, when we knew that from previous scenes already? If the story took this moment seriously, imagine how much shit Phil would have to go through. "Oh, I heard that fake daughter made a statue of herself depicting her as an angel!" She would not be able to leave the palace!!