They literally do? One of the main themes, if not THE main theme, in JJK is this notion of suffering and humanity, and so when we have situations like Higuruma needing to prove his own humanity through death or Choso dying as a consequence of living as a human there's clearly a very unique message being conveyed and narrative weight applied to these things. To say "pointless death" is to take a very surface level analysis.
What's surface level is the main theme being suffering and humanity, especially when it's
still being done towards the end of the story, when we've already gotten that point in the story a hundred+ chapters ago. Death is something that comes to both curses and humans, it has less to do with being human, and more to do with being in conflict with life itself, as Sukuna made clear nearly 50 chapters ago and what Sukuna, Gojo and Kashimo's "strongest" theme comes from. And this is my point in calling it pointless death, we've already seen the theme beaten to the ground in the story, why are we still getting it in the final arc? Maybe that's just me, but the arc should've shifted to something deeper, to show Gege can take his story in a different direction.
Never said they're contradicting, I said you call ANYTHING Gege could do a writing flaw to the point there's no alternative and you've demonstrated this by providing no alternative when that was literally my question.
I don't though.
You complained about Todo being removed from the story for a single arc, claiming he side-lines them. Again, Gege gives the side characters purpose and it's bad writing, he doesn't give them the spotlight and it's bad writing, he kills them and it's bad writing. Where's your ideal solution here? What should he have done with Ryu, Yorozu, Todo, Yuta, Choso, Higuruma, etc?
It's all about how he's doing it and when he does it. He removed Todo from the Culling Games, a massive arc where his power could've been shown. And now look where Todo is, just another character to throw at Sukuna and be support. This purpose you talk about is very lazy for several characters: Miguel came in, fought, dipped, served no purpose, Larue same thing, Ino same thing, Kashimo same thing.
He's giving them spotlight at the end of the story, like so many authors do and it tends to come off cheap and lazy. Ryu, Yorozu, Uro, Kashimo could've specifically have been used to develop the history of the world. We get nothing from them displaying the way the past sorcerers fought, how they interacted with their society, who was the big shots, ZERO on what went down during Sukuna vs the sorcerers in Heian Era, nothing on the main three clans throughout history. A simple 10 chapter Heian Era flashback or Edo flashback would've been good and have suited such a big arc.
Don't think there's anything wrong with Yuta really, maybe could've seen his relationship with his classmates more? Choso's fine, just don't think him dying is needed, you knowing living is also what being human is about right, especially for your fellow sorcerer, something Todo made clear. Higuruma was good during the culling games just ended up being another side character in the end so I think he should've been given a bigger role where he's trained to be part of the main force like Yuta and Yuji are. I was hoping we'd see Kamo become a stronger sorcerer, one part of the anti-Sukuna force having been a semi grade 1 and the heir of the kamo clan, maybe developing something to finish off his character, as the heir to a main clan but no he's just made into an abandon, sad, and forgotten kid by his parents and removed from being heir then runs off.