I really enjoyed the movie but I fucking loved the manga. The manga actually made me tick off a few points on the film. The motivations of the friends are much clearer, the reunion feels more earned and his opening up at the end feels more earned.
The filmmakers wanted to put more focus on his redemption but at the cost of character development, including and especially Shoko. Shoko's character, on the outside, is mostly unchanged but getting into her personal struggles more means she's less of someone to help "fix" Shoya, someone to white Knight, and more of the actual MC she is. The last shot of the film is that Shoya has learned to love himself and we get a brief shot of her smiling and happy for him. But the last two pages don't expressly say it, but is an almost 100% necessary thing to reveal. That he's willing to face their childhood class hand in hand. That her love for him isnt unrequited, that they're going into the future together.
Edit: I have read dozens and dozens of titles, from Shonen to romance, to comedy, fantasy and sci fi, horror over the years and am just catching up with things I've missed during my "manga hiatus" but I agree with NSESN: this may be one of my favorite manga of all time.
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