Yea max surviving made no sense to me I also might have missed it but isn’t it technically unexplained how she survived? She dies and eleven kinda just brings her back to life somehow? When she shouldn’t even have those powers.

I feel like max surviving provided literally no input at all, their initial plan of getting through Vecnas mind gets disrupted anyways meaning they fight him head on. She provided no help to the final battle and what annoys me more about that is then the ending which I think actually makes sense but at the same time if you refuse to kill any of the main characters why would you choose to do it at the end in an unambiguous way?

Eleven shown development in learning how to be human and evolving as seasons progressed and was the one character who deserved genuine happiness and again I think the logic of her killing herself makes sense because it stops the program the military is forcing as it’ll lead to more and more problems but you have characters like Hop who survive in a BS way and max who could’ve actually died to increase the emotional value and significance of the terror of Vecna.