Like, this episode definitely gets the furthest on the former but it still feels like they’re not quite ready to pull the trigger yet even though they should be.

And Explicitly Canon Trans Ranma still feels like a pie in the sky dream even though character-wise, it’s what makes the most sense.

More objectively correct takes

See the difference between the writers of Hazbin Hotel and right-wing Christians is that in order to adapt and in many ways subvert Abrahamic mythology, the Hazbin writers had to actually read the Bible.