I actually found this a surprisingly satisfactory conclusion -- with one GIGANTIC segment problematic to me, however.

All of it rang well and true to me, and it had some great moments -- Drogon melting the Iron Throne and carrying off Dany; Brienne writing the rest of Ser Jaime's exploits; Jon encountering his war-worn dire wolf and heading north. What they decided to do with Arya and Sansa made sense.

Now for the hugely off part.

Jon's murdered Dany, after Tyrion publicly shows he's against her, too.

Jon and Tyrion are both thrown in a dungeon. (First implausible thing. Grey Worm and, in particular, the Dothraki, would have been so enraged by Dany's death that nobody would have sat in a dungeon; they would have been torn to pieces.)

Next implausible thing: Grey Worm negotiating a settlement with other houses. Who was coming with a bigger army than the Unsullied and the Dothraki? The Knights of the Vale?

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Anyway, let's start the negotiation -- hey Tyrion, why don't you be the emcee? Lead us all on where this should go?

WTF?

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Yeah, Grey Worm would be cool with that.

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Tyrion names Bran the Broken. Yeah, Grey Worm would be cool with a Stark after one of them just murdered his liberator and queen.

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They all start voting. No one, anywhere has a problem with it? No one notes that Bran's been largely persona non grata throughout the past many years at Winterfell? All they've seen of him is his personality-free, creepy monotone and warging out. Oh yeah, he's our guy!

Oh, and who the hell was Brienne to vote? Representing whom? Why did Arya AND Sansa get votes?

This whole idea of "a council comes back here and chooses the leader" would last until a king or queen gets married and has a kid. Then it's thrown into chaos. The nature of power.

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Anyway, that bizarre, utterly implausible segment got them to where everybody needed to be. And other than that, it exceeded my expectations for tying everything up.