My opinion on stranger things season 5:
Am I the only one who liked it somewhat?
Cause like hear me out:
The duffer brithers left really much open, either cause they want to continiue the story but seperatly in the future or because they want to leave it to fanfics or inpretation.
So if we were to look at Byler, Mike says that he sees Will having a boyfriend after their adventures, but that can if you think of it being what Mike assumes will happen. I mean since what he said about El was a theory, it's not impossible that Will didn't actually have that boyfriend yet. And that boyfriend reminded me awfully much of Mike. So that could mean that he sees himself as Wills future boyfriend but he's still dealing with losing El and everything that has happened to them.
Or another option is that Will does have that boyfriend, but what does Mike think about him? Well, we have no idea. But we could guess, and if we were to guess and want it to be as canon as possible; then we look at how he treated Wills earlier potentual love intressts from Mikes POV. And he's never been nice. Like he doesn't have a record of being friendly with Wills potentual love intressts.
So I still believe in Byler, and if the show truly gets no follow up on Byler, we have fanfic and logic that supports it.
But otherwise they really messed up the plot. Vecna died to easily. No one died (I wish one died, but that it was in graved with the plot so they truly had to, also this is when they were fighting Vecna)
And with El, I think she got the right endning. We don't know if she survived or not, it's left to what we chose to believe. And that's kinda beautiful and I feel like it fits her.
But also the fact that they left that open, it kinda points towards them leaving Byler open too and possible.