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He only sacrificed himself when Eigong infected the roots, pretty sure that wasn't the original plan.
I think he was going to Fly New Kunlun back to Penglai, but he still wanted to save the apemen, as he was the one the part them into the situation to begin with.
If Eigong didn't infect the root, Yi would have flown back home, try to help the Solarian best he could, and only use the bomb as a last ditch effort before heading to the Blue Planet to be with ShuanShuan.
There really is no major discrepancy in the time line that defies logic since there's no determination of how slow or fast Eigong could do her thing. The story simply says by the time Yi makes it to her, he only has the option of sacrificing himself. There could be dozens of other "what ifs" you could think of so that Yi doesn't die but the reality is, not all stories have "choose your own adventure" endings. They wouldn't have the same impact if you could just pick how things go...just like in real life. You don't choose how a person's story ends, that person does.
At best, he directs New Kunlun to go back home, puts himself and everyone else still onboard back into stasis, lives a few weeks to months after arrival, and then the Solarians go extinct, with him among them. (Even in the ending we got, Kuafu probably only has a very short time left to live.)
I always assumed that actually making the rhizomatic arrow took just a few minutes, while choosing to evacuate the apemen probably took a couple hours.
Well, it is considered a "bad" ending.
I also find it kind of entertaining too. I think it's implied that Yi's tianhuo infection has a caveat in that he can somehow be reborn through the root nodes after dying thanks to his symbiosis. That is, he's effectively immortal so long as the roots exist and are fed. I don't think he whips up a cure the last minute but rather over the course of decades he's researching it. By that end in the game, Shuanshuan might be an adult and is working with Yi to monitor the soulscape system but no cure as of yet.
Overall, there is no actual solution implied through this ending but if I had to guess, it would likely be dystopian for the Apemen...llike Yi discovers he can recycle the Apemen bodies and use genetic modification to alter them to be similar to Solarians then somehow transfer their consciousness to the Apemen brain using the soulscape system...but in the process, it takes multiple Apemen (the brains to sustain the soulscape and then a body to GM) to save 1 Solarian. From the perspective of a Nine Sols 2, Yi would then be the end boss you have to defeat to save the Apemen, some of which are GM'ed solarians fighting to escape Penglai and stopping Yi's plans to sacrifice the Apemen species to save the Solarians. Shuanshuan would probably also be a boss who ends up GMing himself to be Solarian and Kuafu being another boss who is one of the last threads to save the Solarians left as his DNA isn't tarnished with an immortal curse or touched by the roots.
The culmination of this new game being the trans-apeman species supremacy and expanding on the ancient Solarian technology and techniques of the Fangshi as well as other secret data on a means of obtaining immortality...and thus the cycle is created.
Personally, I think Yi had a mission to return the root back to their home planet. Didn't he extracted the whole root for space traveling function? And Heng kept going on about the root having some form of consciousness. None of the branch did Yi truly honour his sister.
And if the normal ending was interpreted as everything stay unchanged, it would be likely a branch where Yi rushes to all the Sols, totally ignoring the village and secluding himself from all the visitors in pavilion.
Everything just felt like it blindly leaned toward a negative perspective
Everything bad that happens in Nine Sols is the result of people trying to stop the inevitable. Eignong created the Tianhuo when she tried to achieve immortality, Yi prolonged and expanded that suffering in his attempts to cure the Tianhuo, and Eignong nearly extends it further with her mutation plan. This is the antithesis of the tao. Yi, a taoist scientist, is torn between understanding nature as an immutable current and the belief that nature can be mastered through reason and intellect. In the bad ending the latter belief wins out, and Yi continues a cycle of prolonging suffering in search of an unachievable outcome. In the former ending he accepts death with dignity, going with the flow and coming to terms with what was always inevitable.
Yi surviving in the good ending would fly in the face of that. Not just because accepting death is part of Yi's entire character arc, but because he's *already dying* from Tianhuo just like every other solarian with two legs.
This isn't a negative perspective, but a prescriptive one. We are all going to die. There is no trick or magic or scientific miracle that will subvert this truth. The "cure" isn't trying to fix death (because we can't), but to accept reality and go with the flow.
I mean, let's assume the literal best case scenario that Yi survives everything, the roots are untouched, etc.
First of all, Yi already committed to saving the Apemen, and Kuafu had to pilot the ship. So Kuafu is a dead man walking. Additionally, without Apemen to harvest for the biological computer, the Soulscape can't be maintained, which means every single Solarian in stasis is forced to wake up on an extremely brief death clock. Most of them are just people who happened to be wealthy enough to bribe their way on, and have no actual skills to help with the situation; they would likely also be panicked to be awoken without a cure like they were promised, if they weren't insane from having to leave the Soulscape.
Meanwhile, it's been 500 years since the ship left Penglai. The entire population on the planet is certainly extinct, unless some tiny unmentioned fraction of them were immune to the disease. Furthermore, the ship needs to immediately leave the Pale Blue Planet to unfreeze it. It gets one wormhole jump, and then it's another 500 years of charging up. There is no other known destination like the Pale Blue Planet that could be used to charge aside from Penglai, which means the only options are a permanent jump to some random location in space, or returning to Penglai for at least 500 years.
There is no actual possibility of any sort of good end for Yi. The absolute best case is living in complete and total isolation as an immortal.