Souls are meant to be processed - and from the grumblings you can hear about our dear Mayor here and there, she hasn't always been slacking.

[ Gil interlaces his hands, as he likes to do when he's thinking. Coming at it from a strictly personal point of view, he's grateful that Niescha's dropped the ball on sending Souls on their merry way. He is a lot more interested in working with what Limbo has for him than he is in passing on peacefully. The chance for peace in death has come and gone, ripped from him the second he found himself on that train awake and alert. ]

So far, I'd been thinking of that as a nuisance only to those within Requiem, contained in our little microcosm of the dead... That was shortsighted of me. The existence of Anima suggests that Souls and energy are closely linked. Congregating so many Souls and keeping them for a prolonged amount of time might be upsetting some kind of balance.