Devil’s advocate: it’s a good thing to change things up a bit in an adaptation, both to keep old fans on their toes and maybe come up with new ideas and interpretations.

I had a similar reaction to the s1 ending but I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they have some idea of how to work with this.

My big issue came a bit later, when they had Homelander kill Stillwell. To me the main point of the comics was that all the capes were ultimately a non-issue, a theatre. Stilwell was THE most dangerous, evil and scary character, personifying Vogue.

And they replaced him (her, I guess) basically with some comic relief idiots afterwards.