Having a character grow up in solitary confinement and then ripping her away from the only family she's ever known to live a life of solitude once again is not good writing.

Having a character be in love with his best friend and then just compare it to a high school crush is not good writing.

Having Eleven say that Mike has always been the person who truly understood her after showing us in the previous seasons that he only sees her as a superhero IS NOT GOOD WRITING.

I think I figured out what hurts so much about Cahara being the most likely character to get the A ending, and besides the obvious (the tragedy of Cahara being a father-to-be and dying at the hands of a tortured child he felt sympathy for and tried to save and/or be a father to, the lover and child he leaves behind, the cruelty of it, the irony that, despite having the most to lose out of all of them, Cahara's the one to lose it all, and be forgotten by all save the woman he loved who'll never get closure for him), Cahara is notably the one who best represents hope and goodness taking root under the cruellest conceivable circumstances. He's a deeply traumatized, abandoned child forced into violent crime for survival, and yet he never becomes jaded by it. He loves and cares for Celeste, dreams of a stable future together, risks his life for her and The Girl, and is repaid by the narrative with a cold, cosmically terrifying, cruel death for trying to be a good, or at least better, man and for wanting something so simple and natural as being happy and having a family.

Funger is very much a game about the struggle against fate/the immense cruelty of its world and perseverance in the face of that cruelty, and Cahara embodies that; he ventures into the dungeons at great personal risk because he hopes against hope that maybe he can free the woman he loves and make something better for them and their child than the miserable lives they've been trying to endure together. He tries to help The Girl when he finds her for similar reasons, likely seeing himself and his unborn child in her, and watches her undergo this grotesque nightmarish transformation into an overwhelming God embodying an entire lifetime of his misery and everyone else's, a concept that he cannot fight alone in any way that matters, and he eventually succumbs to the fear and hunger that he and the girl both spent all their lives suffering through and struggling against.