As Nyssa never actually explicitly says that they’re dead, she just says Traken is blotted out forever
Which CAN MEAN ANYTHING
(Although the point Chris Bidmead was making is that they were dead so Nyssa can be the last of her kind) (Which everyone thinks of an YASS QUEEEN!!! SLAY!!! thing but I just find it sad and traumatic.)
And I know that the only times that Robin Soans came back to any Who stuff was to reference death, but that is unrelated and is just Sarah Dollard’s association. Also it was like. 2 times 9 years ago? The world has changed by then.
There are many people around the world, in many cultures, that would make a different associations instead, like of Luvic and Katura staying alive (perhaps in Rocco Yemma Road on the town of Serenity) or even, regenerated.
But maybe I’m just looking at it through the logic of a different show (or even videogame) than Doctor Who.
BUT the various Doctor Who eras also have had different logic than each other.
It’s likely that I just find Doctor Who to be way too violent for me. And that I need to get into Minecraft instead.