Just really goes to show how callous the party really is.
The feel good moments are just ruined when you realize that 3/4th's of the party did not grow at all emotionally or spiritually. Elf Magician is as much of a piece of trash as usual. The Dragon girl is still a muscle-headed moron, and Athena still doesn't give two fucks about how she treated Est, and is only happy he went through another awakening. An awakening due to grief and anger who still wanted to make amends to his old party, but found them trying to drunkenly copulate without any clarification to the reality.
Also while Daru "grew", he still didn't care enough to apologize to Est. In fact, only taking the scorn as some sort of redemption? Oh please, we aren't in that stage of anime trope anymore, that phased out in the early 2010's. At least try to apologize and if they still don't forgive, then you move on.