Nope. D&D had his bullet points. And they put them on screen exactly as that.....bullet points. They can't write themselves out of a wet paper bag.
Geoege is to blame for getting his endgame spoiled, but D&D no longer get a pass for the show. The blinders are off. They are hacks that rushed it all to move onto their other wack projects
Listen to what you just said, breh. They had some damn “bullet points.” Not some detailed laid out plan on how to end it. Some damn “bullet points,” to end a show with as many moving parts as GoT. Are they hacks? Yes. Did they fukk it up? Yes. I’m not absolving them. Did they end up in a position where they were forced to come up with an ending for a story that GRRM himself has struggled with for YEARS? Yes.
They are nowhere as good as writers as GRRM. That’s obvious. The plan wasn’t for them to create an ending from a couple of bullet points. Some shyt that GRRM himself has proven he can’t do. They were supposed to have the source material, but GRRM ain’t hold up his end of the bargain. Period. Their hands were forced. Either you halt production until whenever GRRM finishes the books or WoW (which I put at about 5% probability of happening), which at this point no one knows when it’ll happen or if it even does; or you try to do it yourself. They tried the latter and failed because they’re not GRRM, but they wouldn’t have been that position if it weren’t for GRRM.
GRRM has written himself into a corner with this story and has been stuck there for years. Those bullet points ain’t did nothing for his ass. If Stephen King had written these books they’d have a proper ending already. Ultimately, it’s GRRM fault he can’t finish the story.