That's what I thought until the last chapter. All the time, I was waiting for something horrible to happen. I thought that in the last chapter, at the latest, things would have to take some very dark turn indeed to make up for all the full-on utopianism that came before.

Instead, the protagonist becomes a godlike intelligence herself. She not only achieves things outside her virtual world, but gains a far deeper understanding of the physical universe than she could ever have as a human. And she's one of trillions to do so. I can't fathom any rational reason anyone wouldn't want to be that transpony, or one of the Superhappies from Three Worlds Collide.