I agree with you, Axis Gaidin. She should have stepped back or let another editor look at it after she did. I am not sure much would have been changed, but I think she was too close to the situation to have a unbiased opinion on things.
We could look at this another way. Bela was the creator and did fulfill the duty of bringing the Dragon to where he needed to be and upon the completion of this needed to return to the cosmos once more to watch and wait for the next coming.