Yeah, and I also think the fact that Oree wasn't going into the book expecting to die makes it easier to identify with her off the bat - Yeine's situation makes for a great hook and a fascinating plot, but the Inevitable Doom hanging over everything does mean she has less time to meander around just being herself.

I'm sort of torn about Yeine's judgment, because on the one hand - yes, everything you said! On the other hand, I do like that we get to see Yeine-as-goddess making the same kind of inhuman, unfair and often cruel decisions about human life that are explicitly a hallmark of these deities; it really drives it home that she's not our human heroine anymore, and re-emphasizes the all-important point that even the 'mother' goddess is not at all a nice god. But back on the first hand, it really does seem kind of counterproductive!