I mean she’s a villain, the show is not about her development, so to some extent she is meant to be a tool for Xena’s development. Her purpose in the story was to be the personification of Xena’s guilt. There are definitely issues with the angel and reincarnation plot, but it was the end of Xena’s arc with her, Xena as the hero of the show had to be the one to make that choice.

But before the mess of season 5, I’d say she absolutely did reflect. I think what we saw was her reflecting, she realized that there was no point but to die and she sought that. She’s a tragic character because she kept trying to think of things that would ease her pain and every time she was wrong. Like, I guess sure she wasn’t always brought back to work on her own story, she was brought back because she’s a villain who gets to Xena like no other and who the audience enjoys. I think they did a great job of weaving her story into most of those appearances. So like yeah, her overall arc probably could have been better, but as a villain she was incredible, certainly not flat or mechanical.