Oh. You’re pointing out something I kinda missed: that Eren did have a lot more incidence in the world than I previously thought! So that brings meaning back into the center stage, and it’s a self-induced tragedy! Cool! I like that!

But, as you rightly point out, the story still has the issue of ‘having my friends stop me from committing genocide’ on one hand, and on the other. And, beyond that, you went into something I thought about but didn’t go into in my original post: what is the story saying about ethnic relations and how this particular problem got solved? Like, yeah, a lot of people died and Eren dies, but the very last scenes of the story, Eren’s grave aside, are not so ambivalent; they are positive! What am I supposed to take from that? This doesn’t mean that stories have to be happy children’s stories, but the problem of “Eldians being accepted despite of who they are” is thrown to the trash when Isayama destroyed titans.

I agree with you on that.