the characters are still dead even if they are floating in the great Rukh ocean, I want Cassim back. We got like no friendship moments of him and Alibaba together and nothing. After that huge emotional scene of them saying theyre friends, we end with him as a stone cold body and dead, unacceptable

A better end would have been if Aladdin gathered the rukh and they flowed into Cassim's body depetrifying him and giving him the breath of life, right in Alibaba's arms there. That would have actually been a really good scene to end this arc on.