GOOD OMENS 3 SPOILERS! Negative opinion also
The thing that really saddens me is this insistence of the importance of Angel Crowley.
Because I'm going to be super honest here, I never really gave a fuck about Angel Crowley. In s2 opening flashback, it was like looking at someone's childhood, that's how I viewed A! Crowley, a fun background of why they love stars so much, a peek into how they looked and that's all for me. I never got attached to A!Crowley, because to me, that simply WASN'T Crowley I learned to love. It was not the speed demon who comes up with silly schemes that come and bite her in the ass, the one that suffered injustice, the one that despite everything was still an optimist.
Crowley is a bit of an asshole, but really, he's kind and I think it's really meaningful for a character that went through so much and saw so much cruelty to be kind.
And then the whole A!Crowley campaign started. That she was kind and loved humanity BECAUSE deep down they were still that same angel, not because of the things he saw and expierenced. And like ok, kinda weird direction but whatever.
Side tangent here, but do some of y'all remember those older professors!au fics? Like before s1 or right after? Crowley in those was usually a Biology professor. Because plants were his thing and loved them in his own, demonic, way.
So yeah, the whole spiel of Crowley being the best angel and whole Aziraphale humiliation ritual REALLY didn't sit well with me, because Crowley WASN'T A!Crowley anymore, all that development and just millennia of learning and loving humans was just put under "Oh it's in your deeply rooted nature because deep down you are still that angel".
And the thing is, Crowley was both a shoddy demon AND a shoddy angel. So evaluating him under the angel/demon lense is kinda weird and off-putting. What happened to shades of grey?
Well anyways, then Prof. Anthony Crowley walks in and we see his book about Astrophysics.
If that isn't confirmation that the traumatized, silly, asshole, loving, mischievous Crowley wasn't ever supossed to exist OR be happy then I don't know what is. Demon Crowley never stood a chance, everyone always wanted Angel Crowley.