ok you know what? sure, lets pretend aziraphale and crowleys actions at the end of the finale - to erase the universe and everything in it and to sacrifice his own wants and needs for "the greater good", respectively - are in character. for the sake of conversation lets say thats the case. that only works if you highlight the worst parts of them over every other bit of characterization
because like yeah! crowley did show signs of apathy and nihilism in the face of a rigged system, at his worst he might have suggested to destroy everything in favor of something more fair for humanity. and yeah aziraphale did show signs of sacrificing his desires, his morals, and his safety for the sake of others in the face of that rigged system, at his worst he might have given up every piece of himself and literally died for the sake of something more fair for humanity. but thats just it. those are the choices these characters would make at their worst. those are the worst sides of these two incredibly intelligent, empathetic, determined, wonderful beings
and if you roll with that for a second, if you take the finale to be canon and assume that those are the choices aziraphale and crowley would make, then it just becomes all that more devastating when you consider that it didnt even fucking work. the world they died for isnt suddenly fair and wonderful just because god isnt there to silently watch over it (a conclusion which is dubious at best), because heaven and hell are not the only ways in which the world is rigged. they are not the only sources of oppression and dictatorship. so now youve got a universe thats just as fucked, just as devastating, just as unfair if not more so, and aziraphale and crowley arent even there in the midst of it finding joy anyway because they are dead. they died. they chose to die and it was for nothing. thats the ending we got
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