Man, I hope you're wrong. I'm boosting for 'nevermore', and something that doesn't get undone.
_my_ ideal QC future has a prominent dead body in it.
I don't get why anyone over the age of, say, four* would want a storyline that would "go their way", or, even worse, only has characters that they like.
What I appreciate about QC is that it always finds a way of taking turns that I didn't expect, and sometimes has developments in the storyline that piss me off. This provides for surprises and new insights.
Are you seriously saying that you would dismiss, say, Hamlet, because Hamlet and Ophelia don't live happiily ever after, or because you don't like one of the main characters? I can see someone disliking Ophelia, and Hamlet himself isn't a particularly nice guy himself.
Also, I think this thread could be easily reduced to a somewhat more manageable length if all the posts whining about "Oh, please, Jeph, I want it to go that way", or relentlessly repeating "I hate Dora and I want her to die in the foreseeable future" would be stripped.
In general, I think it's safe to say that, if you hate a character, that's fine, but people get bored with your mantra if you keep repeating it over and over. I took Wiregeek's post as an example, merely because he provides so many examples, but there are many more folks who are so obsessed by their Dora-hate that they apparently haven't seen the huge importance that the Dora character has had on the story.
*) I make an exception for toddlers, who like stories about nice animals, and want to hear the same story over and over and over, because repetition is key at that age.