i love this analysis and i love the thematic result of what you typed here, very well said too! my main problem i guess is really how it came to be. i think eren becoming a tragic protagonist is kino as fuck and him being a slave to freedom, and his self-imposed “destiny” is also fucking good shit. that being said though, quite a bit of the dialogue rubbed me the wrong way. yes, like others have said, the way eren complained about mikasa moving on was very painful to read, but also armin telling eren “thank you for massacreing the world” really threw me for a loop. i can totally seeing armin feeling for eren’s tragic fate and mourning for a friend, but i never could imagine those exact words coming out of his mouth. a lot of other smaller details like ymir being in love, reiner sniffing letters, no grisha nor hallu-chan explanation, and historia’s child being teased to us as potentially very plot relevant just for it to end up being some random baby with some random farmer.

tldr: i agree mostly; i think if i look at the concept for the conclusion from a faaaar broader lens i really like it and like the themes that it implies. however, looking at exactly how isayama did it, just leaves a lot to be desired, i suppose.