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People are pretty disappointed about the Muzan fight and reincarnation ending, huh? I thought they were both very in-keeping with established characterization and the themes of the story.
Muzan did nothing but flail tentacles around and be difficult to kill because he's an egoistic, tantrum-y baby of a person. He has no skill, no creativity, and no interest in strategy. He smashes through his problems and things that vaguely annoy him with murder, with little regard for longer-term consequences. His character has been portrayed this way from day one: the way he killed the doctor who was treating him, his fit-of-pique massacre of the Lower Moons, his view of himself as a force of nature. Why would he have any interesting or tricky powers? "Sheer power" is the only thing he views as worthwhile, beyond ensuring his own survival.
The reincarnation ending is the culmination of the Demon Slayers' wish, passed down through generations, that nobody else would have to go through the horrible things and feel the same losses that they did. They didn't fight demons for their own sake, so it makes sense that we see the fulfillment of that wish through their next lives, in versions of themselves that are different people entirely, living the happy, mundane(ish) lives that Muzan stole from them. The survivors of the battle with Muzan may have lived out the rest of their lives with the weight of everything they'd lost, but the point is that chain of suffering is broken.
Muzan did nothing but flail tentacles around and be difficult to kill because he's an egoistic, tantrum-y baby of a person. He has no skill, no creativity, and no interest in strategy. He smashes through his problems and things that vaguely annoy him with murder, with little regard for longer-term consequences. His character has been portrayed this way from day one: the way he killed the doctor who was treating him, his fit-of-pique massacre of the Lower Moons, his view of himself as a force of nature. Why would he have any interesting or tricky powers? "Sheer power" is the only thing he views as worthwhile, beyond ensuring his own survival.
The reincarnation ending is the culmination of the Demon Slayers' wish, passed down through generations, that nobody else would have to go through the horrible things and feel the same losses that they did. They didn't fight demons for their own sake, so it makes sense that we see the fulfillment of that wish through their next lives, in versions of themselves that are different people entirely, living the happy, mundane(ish) lives that Muzan stole from them. The survivors of the battle with Muzan may have lived out the rest of their lives with the weight of everything they'd lost, but the point is that chain of suffering is broken.
