Overrated much? Ending spoilers

It seems people are equating predictability to "shit story." It's not being unable to guess the development that makes the series good, but how the development is executed, and Shigatsu did a pretty damn good job. Oh, so you "knew" what was going to happen before the ending came? Congrats, so did those who paid attention to all the death flags blatantly being waved at the reader halfway through the series. Perhaps I should now spoil myself the ending to every series before I read/watch it and call it shit when I'm done because I knew the ending? The author wasn't going for the surprise factor that Kaori died, the author was painting a story of how it inevitably concludes.

Chelizzle said:
It's overrated and bad.
But it got forced "feelz" so it will be praised,nothing new here.

LastChapter said:
Not at all, the execution of the ending was nearly flawless, if only we received more closure to the series in which I hope the upcoming OVA will elaborate on. Overuse of a certain formula is a poor excuse of rating a series. Because Shigatsu wasn't the first to come up with such a plot, it's bad? So if it were the first to make up something like this, it's good? We get the same series either way with nothing changed but that biased attitude. The ending wasn't predictable, it was an obvious fact nearly halfway through the series and the author didn't even attempt to hide the truth.

To quote what I said in the chapter discussion thread:

Taewan said:

this but what annoys me more is the "feels" shit and than it changes into comedy like "let's cry and than beat the mc for being a shitfuck"