Jesus tap-dancing Christ yes, it makes me furious.
It’d be one thing if they ever framed it in the context of learning from their MONUMENTAL fuck-ups last season, but they’ve never really acknowledged that they did fuck up.
And you’re absolutely right, even as bad as Nick “lies and emotional avoidance” Burkhardt can be with confronting problems sometimes, it was massively out of character for literally ALL of them to suddenly behave that way.
I doubt I’ll ever completely forgive the writers for that utter lack of character continuity and just overall lazy fucking writing, because instead of showing a believable arc in which the characters lose Juliette to this new power in a way that makes sense and really earning that pain, they just forced all their characters to react in ways that were so ridiculously OOC as to be almost comical. Which, don’t get me wrong, is still painful. But like…it was season four of Glee painful, not season five of Supernatural painful. So…epic fail.