>>46187440The thing is people are disposable to Cyrus, they're a means to an end but he doesn't care if he has followers or not because those attachments are probably fitting of the idea of spirit. What matters most is his new world at any cost.
Lysandre actually wants to keep some people around even though he himself calls out the idea of winners and losers. Selection isn't beneath him and it's more of a point for him to put idealists such as Sycamore and the protagonists on the hot seat to see if they can truly prove him wrong without contradiction in their own actions.
It looks similar at a glance but the point is Cyrus' goal doesn't even need a society if it has to come down to that. Just the right to exist. Simple as.
