You say that like your reflections on your role in the lives of poor mortals are totally abstract from the presence of actual mortals all around you. [Beckett is wryer than ever. He doesn't terribly care for very powerful beings with a hobby of meddling.]

But it did change it. Mortality, not humanity - I don't lay claim to that. But it's a big change. Makes you reevaluate death, and the choices that proceed from it.