I'm feeling similarly...I was worried about this being a BuckLemming episode and there were definitely some of the usual hallmarks of their lazy writing, but they did okay and I very much liked where we ended up.

I'm worried about next week, too. I would have been very happy with the show ending with the boys driving off into the sunset together. The way things are, people could headcanon any resurrection or ship they wanted to happen after that final scene, and go pretty much anywhere with fanworks. That's a nice place to be and I don't want to see it go away...

I've been more forgiving of recent seasons than some, I think, so I'm also cautiously hopeful. IDK. Fingers crossed. If it's awful, hopefully we can all agree to kind of collectively forget about it the way the Harry Potter fandom did with the epilogue and pretend this was the real end, lol.