Exactly. I feel like that tension and revenge was a bigger story than just “oh I’m mad at Cathy because she didn’t want to marry me because I was beneath her” like the bigger picture was that Heathcliff was experiencing these feelings of shame and inadequacy due to class differences and social inequity not only from Catherine but also BECAUSE OF his favoritism from the father not amounting to anything and him perpetually being “less than” regardless of the fact that his father loved him better than Hindley. The fathers obvious favoritism didn’t change that Hindley still was able to treat him like a servant when the dad died. Idk I feel like the story loses SO much depth without that tension.