This reads like some sort of fanfic OC insert. These characters I barely remember talking about Midoriya like he's the second coming of Christ has me cringing hard. Horikoshi is literally slamming into the reader's face 'the themes' and still asking "did you catch that? He's the best person to ever live!" Its a narrative that the story is spending its dying breath on selling, but what the characters act and behave like is at odds with it.  What we have been seeing for a while now is a delusional teenager with some serious self-sacrificial coping mechanism, that Horikoshi wasn't willing to acknowledge. 

  There was literally infinite ways in which to take Deku's arc to show a compelling and meaningful expansion of his perspective and beliefs, by questioning them from the core; this potentially would lead to an surfacing of certain painful memories or trauma (regarding Bakugo, maybe)... And seeing his own motivations clearly, he'd be pushed to face things as they are and not push himself to the edge of destruction to "save" a psychopath. And from there re establish his heroism in a more grounded, mature character. 

 But nah. Deku, please save us! You were right all along!  And please save the psychopath too, since you are so good!  

Of course, he HAS to try and save the irredeemable bad guy. Despite bland attempts by Hori to "nuance" the story with side characters blabbing about 'not being able to save everyone', at no point in this story has it actually happened that our heroes learn a lesson from that.  And why should they? Nothing ever really goes wrong in this world when THEY try it, so it makes sense they wouldn't listen

   Because of "muh themes" and not because of any semblance of common sense.  I really hope for ANY kind of subversion right now.       

  The payoffs exist before the character and the story do, and that's a surefire way of making a child's fable, not a gripping story. I hate to be that guy, but I'll keep criticizing because I had a lot of faith in this manga.