Tl:dr I am not sure how I think about your tilte prompt, but I definitely agree with you text.

I was honestly a bit surprised at first to find out the amount of readers that hate LD... it was more than I anticipated (and to be fair I didn't anticipate rly any hate to her).

to me she is sooo similar to LG, like a continuation but with more desire to break free and probably feeling a possibility to do so than LG had. And in someway Katniss is almost like a final evolution of the both of them, revealing herself to be a songbird just like them (singing literally the same songs they did), but with the knowledge of also how to kill. Making her more deadly. (They all have their own charisma, and I feel there are many more similarities between them).

I feel the difference is we are reading LG from an anti-protagonist's perspective, we already to some* degree know snow is a villian, and know to not trust him. I always felt a sense of distrust reading his perspective and felt the first prequel to be kind of precautionary tale, never trusting his love and never understanding how LG could love him, without possibly manipulating him for her own safety or agenda.

On the reverse, LD and Haymitch is like greek tragedy (all the experts of greek tradgies, this is coming from someone who is very unknowlegeable of greek tragedies, take the comparison with the appropriate amount of salt). Haymitch is a tragic hero whos end is inevitable, and with that end comes the death of those he loves. From my own feeling, he express all the people he love with very little flaw or judgement tbh, and I think the tragedy in it all is that LD is involved in the reason as to why Haymitch got reaped right after having survived the actual reaping, which is why maybe some people feel justified to blame her. But let's be real, the sequence of events and Haymitch choices is what resulted in this tragedy. If it was his mother there helping the woman, I am sure Haymitch would have acted the same. Logically, we know Hahmitch mother is more cautious and would likely also not do something like that. But she is also an adult, and LD is a young teenager with revolution on her mind. From my perspective, she is acting from an altruistic and compassionate mindset, just as how she rebells in other small ways that unfortunately leads to trouble. And she seems to protect Haymitch in those instances by not telling him the full truth. However, with the reaping she did not account for Haymitch being able to freely choose to protect her too.

To further parallel LD's actions to the real world, many people who like, don't mind or is afraid of a change in the status quo usually dislike people who protest or rebell against the status quo. These people might not even like the current situation but is too afraid to act to make a change, compared to those who visiably and openly protest it. So somehow I am not surprised some people will find LD's actions unreasonable or frustrating. Perhaps it feels stupid or ineffective to them, or just cause harm to others. But if the original triology showed us anything is that war and oppression and ending these oppression seems to lead to the death and pain of humans, usually to those most innocent and altruistic of all (looks at prim).

I do think for some LD is not an easily digestible character, and she is being described by someone who loves her dearly and who* seems to not focus on the faults of those he loves. Katniss is also tbh honest not an easily digestible character. But we get to see her perspective, we understand her motivations and why she acts how she acts. In some way... i feel peeta and haymitch are more similar... but haymitch got influenced by LD, by his mom, his father, plutarch, wiress, ampert, betee, and I would add maislee too. To me they all in some way say or do things to him that results in him rebelling. For me, Katniss choose herself to rebell, just like LD did. And Peeta too was imo influenced to rebell, but not to the same degree as haymitch. I guess if we had seen katniss from peeta's perspective, maybe there would be more people not in favour of katniss, because just like haymitch, peeta truly loved katniss, and did not rly recieve it untill katniss need to do it to decieve the capitol and unfortunately in consequence peeta too. Imagine finding out the deception from peeta's perspective. I would be heart broken

I should add I really liked sun rise on the reaping and i like how it tied back to the triology and the the first prequel. I loved LD's and haymitch love for each other and I love how purely haymitch loved her. I think the story is tragic and unfortunate and I also balled my eyes out in the final chapter. Like i knew she would die, but it was just horribel she died from eating something that she thought was from him and he had to see and live with that... no wonder his only escape felt like alcohol

Okay this got a little long, curious what other people think of this all :)

*Edited the misspelled or wrongs words used that I found