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My thought is that the duffer brothers probably feel like these child actors are part of their family after working with them for the better part of 10 years. Killing one of the kids in season 4 while all of their friends get to go film season 5 feels cruel to me.

I know these kids are 18 to 20 now but I'd have a hard time writing them off of the show too if I was making the scripts.

But I also don't think we need to kill characters to raise the stakes. The stakes are fine and the hype before part 2 clearly shows people are worried about characters dying. When they don't die you don't get to pretend you weren't concerned they were going to die.

Personally I'd prefer they keep around good characters so we get to spend more time with them but maybe that's just me.