It’s so cynical! “Hey we destroyed the planet and made everyone into a slave but here’s some Deepak Chopra-league bullshit for you to cope rather than try to change anything.”
Gamers were so buttmad about this.
Joel deserved to die for what he did to the Fireflies. He doomed humanity then lied to Ellie about it, when Ellie probably would have consented to give her life to save people.
"Omg, Joel died so unrealistically. He wouldn't have been so careless as to not have his backpack!" Listen Gamer, Joel died a hundred times throughout TLOU. He just had the power of Player One so he could respawn. Then he didn't have that power.
"As someone who worked helping the homeless, let me go into a long diatribe about how homeless men are subhuman monsters." This person is sick. But it's very common for anti-homeless fashies to say 'oh, I work with them! So let me tell you...'