I now have something I can point to as proof of the thesis that the opposite of an error is the opposite error. This Cloud went off the rails a long way back, didn't he?
I find it interesting that you're the second person I've read who's portrayed the Planet as being just as monomaniacal in its own way as Jenova was. Jenova was focussed entirely on nihilistic destruction; the Planet, in many ways, is worse, since it's focussed on preserving Itself above all else - and that weird little sentient skin infection it has is just another tool in the quest for preservation.