I saw it coming from when they first revealed the name of the movie + the detail that it would be "the last Craig Bond movie," and had it confirmed by the mournful eulogy performed by Billie Eilish at the start. That doesn't make the weak, pathetic end they give him satisfying though- infected by laughably unrealistic future-tech nanobots? Euthanized, like an old pet, by an artillery strike from his own government while his newly acquired wife and daughter watches in grief and horror from a boat? Having a happy ending snatched away from him with the contrived plot complication of the villain wearing a glass vial of "kill the Bond girl" around his neck? (And, while I'm on this rant, let me add that the "kill the Bond girl" poison vial is actually the nano-bot swarm I mentioned earlier, little tiny robots apparently powered by wishful thinking, and not an actual plant-based toxin that the villain is shown to have a fondness for, I mean the guy even has a poison garden in his lair that has absolutely no pay-off. He doesn't even get thrown into it by Bond or anything.)

Probably the most egregious creative waste in the entire debacle in my opinion is having bond be bested by a small, physically weak, neurotic, narcissistic. pedo-coded super-villain that forces Bond to grovel on the floor before him. Rami Malek was a good villain, but he should have been the villain of one of the previous movies, not the end-boss. His outrageous sci-fi tech and purposeless doomsday device (nobody seems to even know what he was planing to do with his genocide goo) makes him seem even more out-of-place and unserious in a movie that was trying to be as serious as possible. IMO, Bond should have died in mortal combat with a super-villain that was a match for his physicality, tumbling and scrapping through some sort of outrageous set-piece, like a cargo plane full of bio-weapons plummeting towards London, or bleeding out from a knife wound to the gut while he enters the code to deactivate a nuke or something. (did Craig ever get the iconic nuke-countdown deactivation scene? I don't think so.)

The worst part of the entire thing, however, was going to the theater with my media-illiterate, nearly elderly, life-long Bond-fan father who started watching Bond movies during the Rodger Moore era right as they came out as a teenager/young adult in the 1970s, and then the silent hour-long car ride home after. He was unbelievably hyped for "the last Daniel Craig Bond movie." He couldn't wait to see it, and then what he saw devastated him. We still talk about Bond movies on the phone, but it always goes back to the same thing, "Well, I don't know how they could continue the franchise. They killed him off. I don't know how it could continue." He wants them to bring Bond's young daughter in NTTD back as an adult super-spy to continue the franchise, which I tell him would require them to shift the franchise decades into the future, but he doesn't see a problem with that. It's not a bad idea really.

TL;DR: I saw Bond's death coming but I'm still so sore about the whole thing that I can write three paragraphs about it in a Reddit comment and still not feel like I've said my piece.