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Not the same anon but I personally think that Mike won't directly jump from El to Will especially when you know that around episode 2-3 you will get a time jump of a few years. I think it would be cool to let Byler take their time to correctly build their relationship but at the same time, it shouldn't be left completely up to interpretation in the sense that people shouldn't be like : "there is a possibility that they won't end up together". Either way, it will give a reason to certain people to open their mouths to say : "Will and Mike are just to h*rny boys who are friends with benefits. They aren't endgame". If the Duffers didn't lie about them closing all the arcs of their characters even if it means rushing some things that would take years to be solved irl then I believe that we will get at least 85% of the answers to the questions season 4 introduced.

No matter what happens, homophobes are going to be mad and looking for reasons to discount/disparage byler. That's why I don't care about the reception. I want the writing to be good, because that is what's going to last.

Byler can't rush. That's miIeven's deal. That's miIeven's achilles' heel. Byler needs to talk and take it slow. An established relationship is the new adventure that's just beginning at the end of the show. Un-established byler carries the momentum of their arcs through the finale after the big bads are defeated/when everything is being put back together. If byler are already established, you lose your momentum for their characters.

If they wanted to do a bunch of episodes with established byler, they would have started that process already.