[And that solution sounds even better than giving the gods access to other worlds. They can live with the beings who actually like living with them.]

There may be a few people here who would like to stay here, especially if your former hosts were supplying you with enough energy that you had no need to do the things that you've done to extract emotion from us. So long as they were willing to peacefully co-exist with you and your hosts, would you allow them to stay?