Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

*nod* I have such a fondness in my heart for that epilogue. And NOT just because my angel babies are strolling around together in modern-day NYC, even though that's literally all I wanted out of the finale. ;)

Because my take on that scene - I think you're right that Six's hope and optimism that things might be different this time is key, and the fact they're sort of rolling the dice and arguing about it. I get where people see the technophobia and silliness*, but I think that was because of imperfect execution, if anything? (Especially after hearing RDM talk about that robot montage; he made it sound much more ambiguous than I think came through.) I don't read it as "OH NO MODERN TECHNOLOGY, OUR ROOMBAS WILL DESTROY US ALL." It's just "Yes, we are on our way to creating Cylons, we're testing the lines between people and machines and the world is going to shift when that happens, please be careful." How are we/future BSG cycle of humans going to deal with that?

(*Although I also love the silliness, because my show is CRACK BEAUTIFUL CRACK and there is Jimi Hendrix and angels and it ends on a big cosmic punchline and I'm not sure you *could* do it seriously. 150,000 years later, it's not like HeadSix and HeadBaltar are going to be less smug and snarky.)