I've seen so many takes of "oh Endeavor is meant to be a parallel showing what Bakugou could have become if he never improved"
Where once again the actions show he has not fucking changed.
Also, why wouldn't he want to be like Endeavor? The guy by the end of the series retired as the number 1 hero, is fucking rich, tons of support, including the now HPSC president Hawks, Deku indirectly calls Natsuo unkind for not forgiving him, Rei is seen pushing his electric wheelchair even with three young able-bodied heroes right fucking there. Everyone who criticizes either of them is always casted as wrong end of story
Shoto is for some reason his friend, just like Deku and the Bakusquad, despite the fact that he treats all of them like shit. And the only punishments he ever get is either shared despite the other person not doing shit to deserve it (He forced Deku to fight him, and Shoto was literally being attacked by Isasa), or oh he's not the number one hero because he's just that mean to the press
The narrative never lined up with Bakugo, in that nobody ever responded to him naturally as their characters should have.
How they should have responded based on their own personalities and beliefs.
Stain, Dabi, Aizawa, kirishima, Mina, Iida, Shoto or even ochako.
All of them should have had big issues throughout the series with Bakugo for many reasons.
And even if one ignores all of this and focuses strictly on Bakugo, the delivery on his personal "growth" never really culminated in much real change either.
Because the final chapter shows he's still in the same place as he was during the provisional license exam, his attitude not being great with the civilians he's saving/protecting.
He was failed in the exam for this attitude and skated by through the make-up test.
(By being able to calmly talk to a single kid once I guess?)
Then nearly a decade later, he's still doing the same thing! 😆
It's kind of ridiculous when you look at all of it, like: "Where were we going with this??"