Err, my definition was not 'best possible ending', my definition was 'actually resolves the conflict in a positive manner'. Unless the GOlden Ending was also the only possible ending where things go well on the whole, they are still two different things. 

EDIT: I mean, I'm not sure why I'm even bothering to argue in the first place, since you'll just do what you want anyway. I shall resign myself to the inevitable disappointment of rocks falling and everything dying.