It was a sitcom about slapbets, and Robin Sparkles, and Legenwaitforitdery, and fun things that were fun and lighthearted! No matter how much you love the misery porn, it had no place being the series finale of an otherwise feelgood show. It's like, what am I even here for? Is this like those Netflix dramedies that means "really fucking depressing show with a couple of witticisms tossed in to trick people into watching it because if it was just labelled 'drama' they would avoid it like the plague"? Because it didn't seem like one of those during the one million years it ran for. It seemed like not quite as pure as Kimmy Schmidt, but on a par with Parks and Rec in terms of tone; a show which ended correctly.
It would be like ending Modern Family with Jay finally going hardcore senile and marrying the Deedee tree because Gloria burned to death in a fire and you see her melt like Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it was all Joe's fault because Jay gave him his first lighter, but Joe blames Manny, and gaslights him so Manny thinks it was due to his own negligence with scented candes, so Manny goes to prison and you know he won't survive in there and so does he; and Phil and Claire divorce because Claire wants to support Jay, and Phil thinks Jay needs professional help, and Phil ends up on the streets shivering under a newspaper and you know he's going to die, and someone just walks past him like he's invisible, the irony, his greatest magic trick will be his last; and Claire is institutionalized because Luke lost both his hands during a botched robbery and she can't process it, and Dr. Alex tries to look after her, but Claire blinds her with a chemical in a fit of rage and Alex forgives her which makes it so much worse; and Haley and Dylan's kids die of SIDS so the two of them are just husks having joyless sex in their trailer, eyes totally glassy reflecting nothing but robotic spasms as part of them desperately tries to replace what was lost; and at the end it's just Lily and her dads, and Mitch is openly weeping and it's really hard to watch, but Cam is ghostly still, like we've never seen him before, and Lily says "I don't know what happened to us, but I'm going to eat poptarts" and she lets go of them and walks offscreen, and Mitch stops crying and reaches for Cam, and Cam doesn't move so Mitch pulls his hand back, and the camera just lingers on Mitch and Cam, and we hear Lily in the kitchen, and fade to black and it's credits.
And that's what you're advocating and what you think is appropriate and good.
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