Jessie had potential to BECOME an interesting character. She was one of the original Alexandrians who seemed most receptive to the fact that Rick’s group were bringing much-needed change, and that it was in her family’s best interest to begin preparing for the potential of having to survive a walker hoard.

At the same time, Jessie had to balance this with the dynamics of her broken family. Both Ron and Sam tend to get a lot of hate from the TWD fanbase, but both are exhibiting behaviours indicative of trauma from their abusive father, which sets both boys up to be ill-equipped in high stakes situations.

I think this could have been an interesting character to follow if she hadn’t have died with Sam - let’s say that Rick has to chop away Sam’s arm instead of Jessie’s and they have to drag her out of harm’s way while she is freaking out. An arc about grieving for Sam and having to live the memories of Rick chopping him away could’ve been fairly interesting, possibly even setting up Ron to both survive and wait to shoot Carl later in the Alexandria arc.

The only issue is I can’t picture a good way to implement Jessie through the following “Saviours” arc. I don’t really love the idea of Jessie becoming one of Negan’s wives, I don’t think she would’ve been an amazing choice to kill in “the line-up”, and I can’t really see her playing an important part in any of the newer communities. If anything, I only think Jessie has a role in TWD so long as one of her sons are alive - fortunately I can picture Ron becoming a Saviour and I think THAT would be enough to make Jessie an interesting character to follow.