I'm in the gang that actually defends the ending. I always watched LOST more for the characters than the mysteries so it worked for me. There was shit I didnt like (Sayid ending up with Shannon instead of Nadia) and also looking back the focus on romantic pairings is a bit dumb but idk. It brought closure for me so it was fine.

(I'm also in the gang that thinks the vast majority of the mysteries were actually explained but you had to use critical thinking to figure them out, there was a tumblr blog that explained this to me I didnt use critical thinking myself because I dont have it!)

This reminds me of how my ex friend pissed me off by not understanding the LOST ending. She thought the ending meant they had ALWAYS been in purgatory, rather than the side timeline being a sort of pugatory-like-thing. She thought it meant nothing in the show ever happened and meant nothing. It blew me away because this is LITERALLY spelled out in dialogue. The worst was how when I said I liked the ending she smarily smirked and said "oh, you liked that they had always been in purgatory" and I wanted to slap her. God as shitty as it was that that friendship ended at the time the more that I think about it the happier I am that its over. But anyway.