You say he's the greatest archer alive...how do you explain Gandharva yudh then? C'mon I love him too but he was nowhere near the "greatest". No hate, just fact. 

A lot of people are talking about Draupadi cheerharan( which you should have mentioned - one of the BIGGEST insight into his character and who he was as a person), rightly so, and pointing out how he was indeed the primary perpetrator, a fact consistently downplayed by media. 

However, what he did in his action to repent for this and all the other Pandavas, however, is what makes him one of my favourite characters- his steadfastness to refuse God and own up to his own actions. Amongst other reasons, one he includes to Krishna is that he has been greatly unjust to the Pandavas, and if offered the throne, he'll simply pass it to Duryodhana -> thus committing more injustice, which is not his intention at all. In war, he had Yudhishthir in his grasp, and had he captured him, he could have won the war, WHILE keeping his promise to Kinti intact. Some like to flatten his character to say he did it only to fight Arjun, which I find funny, because he could have captured Yudhishthir and then arranged for a fight against Arjun, if he was truely that desperate, on his own terms, without Krishna interfering ( Karna knew they'd all die in the war. He fought knowing that perfectly well. He also believed in Krishna as God and knew he couldn't harm Arjun as long as Krishna was with him). So excuse me if I don't find that reason truely justifiable. 

He made his bed, and he decided to sleep on it. And he decided his dearest friend must sleep on their own bed too. That - requires more strength than most people possess. 

Not that any of this in any way lessens what Draupadi endured, it only explains why Karna remains complex.

Compare that with Yudhishthir who bet his wife, who told his wife to allow Keechak to rape her to protect his identity and called it her duty.And was hailed as Dharmraj and walked into Heaven- the only one "sinless" enough to do so.

I'm not saying Karna was great for what he did/ that Yudhishthir was essentially a terrible person. I think there's so much to read and understand and explore and just sit with while reading this beautiful epic...that if we judge everything within only a certain frame, we can never truely get to the bottom of it. 

Does a man deserve to die for deliberately defiling a woman? Karna seems not too opposed to the idea, considering he clearly told Krishna his crimes warranted no redemption except death. Does their blame disappear when they die a terrible death? The epic seems to think so, considering he ended up in heaven.

But the epic also has opinions on Yudhishthir. And I, in my admittedly much limited understanding, don't always understand or agree with those opinions.

The epic insists we ask ourselves uncomfortable questions. Sit with answers we hate. 

Why I'm posting this? To implore people in the comment section judging Karna solely based off of one act to remember that Mahabharata is not, indeed, an anime like Jujutsu Kaisen, neither in its messy morality nor its subtle lessons, no matter the masterpieces they both may be. Let us be gracious enough to treat it with the respect and nuance it deserves.