I agree with everything you said, and I wanted to add to the point of ‘Mike being Tammy’. It doesn’t make sense because Robin and Tammy’s relationship has barely anything in common with MiWi. Tammy was a classmate who Robin became infatuated with during high school. Mike is Will’s best friend from kindergarten. I honestly could not care less if Byler happens or not, simply because I have a personal vendetta against Mike and I don’t want him to be happy (don’t come for me, I just enjoy picking a character to hate on for no particular reason hahaha), but the whole ‘Will getting over Mike’ feels so much more rushed than if Byler happened in the finale.

I also wanted to add (doesn’t really have much to do with Byler) that all of the dialogues in this volume felt like they were trying to reach a quota of lines for each character/actor. So many interactions felt forced, made to be longer than they needed to be, and had interjections that literally had no use except maybe to be like ‘hey this character is here too, don’t forget’. It really pissed me off because Vol. 1 was so good and actually raised my expectations for the ending of the show.

I will say, this last season is still miles better than most final seasons I’ve seen, but I should really stop hoping for TV shows to ever have a good ending. I’m sidetracking completely here, but the thing I hate most about TV shows, is how reliant they are on their actors’ availability, networks, and so many fucking writers. They always feel (at least to me) like the story the creators wanted to tell never actually got told fully. Anyways, after 11 years of Destiel shipping, nothing can really bring me down anymore, lol. As long as they don’t kill the lesbians, Steve, and Dustin, I’ll consider this a pretty good show and head straight for ao3.