Yes, Traken (a studio bound uncanny valley planet with a fake looking sky - if only they got red contacts for Sheila Ruskin and some actual location filming) got destroyed, and the Trakenites died. But I should’nt be sad about that, instead I should be happy that a lot of the Italian characters survived.
Heck, the Doctor took Peter Capaldi’s face because he saved a few Italians from Pompeii. And doing so he kinda changed the history of most of Europe if not the world since it is so long ago. As even Britain used to be part of the Roman Empire before (or this post would be written in Welsh) (and the history of Doctor Who would be completely different, even for just one of my ancestors killing or deciding to spare one of their ancestors!) I should be feeling more, happyness for the survival of the British\anglo-esque characters, and turn the sadness over Traken to that happiness. Those characters often feel related to real history and to my every day life.
So finally I get that when the Doctor met a random refugee (Habrian, Pashtun, humanized skittle, who cares) that also looked like Robin Soans, he saw said refugee as a killed person. To the point that fourth billed (just after the Doctor and Clashildr and before even the Riggins family and the Trap Street welcomers) in Face the Raven\Clara Trilogy part 1 is: Robin Soans - Chronolock Guy. (As in, guy that got killed by a chronolock.)
And then when they made Sins of Winter, Robin Soans narrated it not because Shadrak Winter resembles him (although I do sometimes FC Robin as Shadrak, and the monk render in the Sins of Winter cover, who I presume to be Shadrak, also looks a bit like him, closer to in age to his 1981 than 2015 self but ofc its not him. Mostly because it’s a digital painting and not an edited pic of Robin as Luvic. Or I’d recognize the face angle.)
I think that if Luvic and Katura did’nt get killed off in Logopolis, Robin Soans would’ve played Tony Mack, and the chronolock guy would be played by Richard Sheridan Willis. Hence why I mention it as such on my newest AxC episode.