Exactly. And the imbalance or wrong against them is what causes obligation. But Morpheus Dream believed he had done nothing to wrong Hector or Lyta (which isn't true, though the thing she eventually brought the Kindly Ones down on him for was neither his doing, nor fully true), which freed him from being obliged to do anything for them. Daniel felt differently, but only as a son, not on a cosmic level. Therefore, while to him there was obligation, he's already balanced it from his end as far as he's concerned, especially by his actions at the end of this JSA run. And that's why he wouldn't particularly care if Peej went off on him.
...That made sense in my head, but I'm not sure I'm making sense in writing. And I just realized that you might be talking about the writers targeting them, not the in-universe forces, in which case I kinda rambled for nothing, but oh well.