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Yo_D_oY posted...

I'll never comprehend the reasoning behind the showrunners' decision to destroy the most successful project they will ever have been involved in.

It's because D&D made the mistake of putting shock value on a pedestal; every disappointing plot point or poorly-contrived character decision can be traced to putting shock value first and logic / cohesive writing / proper buildup and payoff a distant second. IIRC they admitted at one point that their main goal was to put the Red Wedding onscreen; for TC's benefit I don't want to cite the most egregious examples in S7 and S8 even in spoiler tags, but if you consider that every major plot point that came after was an increasingly-failed attempt to recreate the RW's cultural shockwave, the show's trajectory makes a lot more sense.