Maybe Felicity was just lonely in her relationship with Oliver that is why she felt betrayed by his secret
I believe that the big outrage against Felicity is because she remains misunderstood and unexplored.
What made me fell in love with this show at first was the amazing character building of Oliver in s1. When I fist saw Amell without the beard in the hospital meeting Moira, with his perfect body and face, I was like - who is this Ken. But then the show cared so much about building Oliver as a character that I couldn't not fell in love with him, with all his flaws and pain. We see him scared on the island, hungry, helpless, desperate. Than we see him watching himself in the mirror with all his scars, having nightmares and sleeping in the rain. Watching his loved ones from a distance wearing a mask - all these small scenes where they build his state of mind even with out a dialogue.
The thing is they never gave Felicity the same treatment. In the whole show she had one origin episode, which was more about introducing a comics character - her boyfriend.
Her wheelchair aftermath episode was weird. We never had a character moments with her where she tries to do everyday things and struggles, or looks her self in the mirror, or have a ptsd - like Oliver had all these moments in s1. Instead we saw how Oliver is caring her around and being there for her all the time and she still leaves him, which makes every fan angry. So it feels like the writers wanted us to be angry at her, and not really understand her.
The only character moments she had were in s1 and 2 and were connected to how she is in love with Oliver.
People say s4 was Felicity and friends, we had her mother, father, Curtis, she is CEO and saves the day and so on, but this is all plot building and never a character building. We never see her emotional state of suddenly meeting her father, or having a flashback with her as a kid when he leaves, or understand why is she not close with her mother, or what it is like for her to be suddenly a CEO. She is just given all this stuff as an accessories but not as a character building.
It would have been so different if we had just little scenes were we see her how she feels, how she reacts to certain situations, how she shares personal things.
I feel like Laurel was treated similarly in s2 with her drinking. They did not spend time and scenes to show us why Laurel really drinks and how she feels but rather how she screws things up and is obnoxious to others. Example: the scene where she goes on a date, drinks wine and gets pulled over felt like we need to see what a mess she is and how she acts irresponsible, but if they just showed us a little scene with her at home where she looks at Tommy's picture and remembers his death, or how she remembers dragging her drunk father home, or how she almost dies, or puts Oliver's picture face down as he left her again, and when the guy calls her for a date she first refuses because she is hurt and not ready, but then accepts as he allures her with a case - I think would have been kind of different.
But lets get back to Felicity, it would have been completely different if they gave her a character moment where we understand why she leaves Oliver- maybe she was lonely with him - he had all these friends and team, while she has just him, we see her notice him sneaking around, or maybe explore her abandonment issues with her father and that is why she feels Oliver sending William away was wrong, and so on.
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