Packweezer:]

The Sorcerer and The Heart

Do not fall for the "they are so cool" agenda. Mike and Will (yes. even with powers) are losers. They are cringe-fall losers and anybody who believes otherwise is [redacted]

El says there are too many soldiers and Hopper can't take them all. This immediately transitions into Will's demo vision.

The demogorgon only kills the soliders. We think it's about to get Hopper, but it kills the driver instead. It totally ignores Hopper.

Will sent the demogorgon after the soldiers to protect him.

When the car crashes and Hopper gets flung, Will falls to the ground. He was connected to Hopper too.

So it wasn't proximity based, it was based in love and protection.

Will's vision stops once it starts to head towards the Wheeler house. That's not what he wanted. That was when Vecna took over.

The same thing happened at the military base. When one of the soldiers hit Derek, Will's protective instinct took over and caused him to send the demogorgon after the soldiers. Once again, Will's loved ones were completely ignored in this sequence.

Meanwhile you see Mike being soft with Will most of the time, looking more like a kicked puppy during these arguments and taking full accountability for them later on:

They really do give this: