The one most obvious difference when you compare GO3's Decision with the Ineffable Almost Heroic Sacrifice in the original book (which is something I have done in various formations many times. It's basically the one moment in previous GO Canon that even remotely resembles the direction GO3 decided to go in...) is, well, in the Book, Aziraphale is the one who suggests they stay and risk their lives for the Humans (in a moment that was essentially deleted entirely from the GO1 version of that scene) , while in GO3 they have basically 'swapped roles', with Crowley being the one who comes up with the idea of sacrificing themselves for the sake of a 'Godless Universe'.
But it's more then that… in Book Omens, Aziraphale is the one who first decides to try to sacrifice himself by fighting Literal Satan and talks Crowley into helping him, yeah, but it is an incredibly important moment for Crowley as well. It's a culmination for both of their individual arcs about their relationship with Humanity and their jobs. It's just a beautiful moment of resolve from Aziraphale, showing that despite his hedonism and selfishness and hypocrisy, he does have a moral code that's flat-out better than what we see come from Heaven, especially now that he's become disillusioned with his higher-ups and doesn't even try to put himself on a Moral High-Ground compared to Crowley.
And it's also such a great moment for Crowley's character, after a whole arc of being forced to confront all of his fears about Hell, to realize that as self-serving as he is, when he's got nothing more to lose, he wants to do this brave and selfless thing. As a huge Book Crowley fan this line of internal monologue always makes me feral. He's been trapped by his fears of 'getting in troubles' with Hell for 6000 years, and now he's finally free and he knows that what he wants to do is beat his shitty boss in the face with a tire iron and save the Humans!!
And it's, y'know, kinda important that if you have one character talk their friend/partner into doing a Heroic Sacrifice with them, to see that the friend comes to actually understand why they should risk their life like that, that it means something to them as just an individual person.
Because the problem with the GO3 'Sacrifice' isn't really that it 'gives' Crowley a moment that Aziraphale 'lost'. It's the way that it goes out of it's way to make this moment all about Crowley to such an absolute degree. It's the culmination of his relationship with Humanity and his arc about being free from Heaven and Hell and his arc about challenging God, and the narrative seems to go out of its way to emphasize that Aziraphale only goes along with it as a demonstration of his love and trust of Crowley, his relationship arc with Crowley, how he's trying to make up for not listening to Crowley and being a ""Taker"".
They swapped out a moment of (Almost) Heroic Sacrifice that was led by Aziraphale, but was extremely powerful for both of these characters, to a moment that centers Crowley first and foremost and makes Aziraphale's role to just be The Boyfriend. And I think this is such an astronomical-scale downgrade for the note their story ends on.
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