It just gets worse when you think about how the ending was sadistically designed to mess with the audience. That became crystal clear in the script excerpt from the scene at the end: "Crowley swallows. Will this be the second kiss, a declaration of love to match Aziraphale's?" NOPE! Neil Gaiman actively encouraged an expectation that they would have a happy ending, only to viciously tear the rug out from under us. Why? Why put them in this fucked up situation in a COMEDY? Well, no one should have trusted an abuser with writing their ending.
NG really said "I'll give you a kiss, but you won't want it", for season 2, and then he gave us the South Downs ending that no one wanted (though some have accepted or embraced it, happily for them).
In a story where funny twists or loopholes like "actually you're not my father" and "isn't the great plan also the ineffable plan?" saved the day before, there would have been countless different endings that could have stayed true to the ending that Pratchett allegedly wanted, without falling into NG's grim, sadistic, darkness.
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