The storyline that almost directly precedes the final storyline where in Ethan dies has Ethan gain a degree of sanity. To compensate Lilah and Lucas start doing crazy things. Now, given the ending of that final storyline, wouldn't they go right back to doing crazy things?
In the context of what WAS going on, theoretically. But since buckley has said that he is essentially rebooting continuity, no
After watching a bunch of Intervention episodes, I just realized the 2010-2011 Wintereenmas arc is about Ethan's friends enabling, nay, encouraging his video game addiction.