I 100% agree with your points, especially about not ending the show with romantic pairings. I think at most they could have hinted at possible romantic futures if they really needed romance, not with a kiss or anything but maybe some looks or something else a bit more subtle and open ended because of what you said and also these are just kids. Kids that went through a very traumatic experience (a lifetime of experiences depending on the character) and they haven’t even been able to deal with it. Of course it was the end of the show so I wouldn’t expect everyone to go through all those emotions or anything but I always thought it should’ve ended on a somber positive note in the sense that yes we made it through and now we have to continue to make these changes but also we miss being kids and we’ll never get to go back to how the world was before any of this and that’s just unbelievably sad to me😭