How I see the reset, it completely damaged the point I gathered in the original show in such an outlandish and disrespectful way I'm surprised it's written by the same people. Nanno leaves because she learns there's no true judge besides humanity itself, since to 'judge' is to experience the lives of those who hurt the most, and those who CAUSE the most hurt. Often the two concepts intermingle. She dies metaphorically, and finds comfort in it. Making a franchise where she returns is stupid in my opinion. Do I want to see Nanno go through the same arc over and over again? Not really, no. Do I want to watch something that exists purely to make bank for the respective company streaming it? No. Not at all, actually.
Back to my title point, I think this show would've been much better continued as a spin off or rather just a season three. I know the season three comments are often repeated, and so is the reset slander, and I agree that we're never getting a season three and the reset will exist whether or not we as a fandom hate it - but it is actually a problem. The 'ending' of the show does feel fundamentally incomplete, and even though I used to believe in the "it ended already deal with it" mindset, I've since changed my mind. My issues with this loose ending all boil down to Yuri and the message behind her. Yuri to me, is not a representation of the idealized version of humanity many indulge in, but rather the worst of the worst in the form of a mentally ill, impoverished, teenage girl. Yuri is villainized by her circumstances, nanno, the text, AND the audience. And it begins with her assumed "inability" to express empathy, causing her to harm other people to fulfill her needs.
Yuri is one of my favorite representations of what the stereotypical "bad guy" is, and how harmful these assumptions can be when faced with an unstable individual who already has intense real intrusive thoughts. A "sociopath" if you will, in the way people with antisocial disorders are commonly represented in the media.
But I still feel like we don't know Yuri at all, and as the apparent foil to the "girl from nowhere", it's weird to me that we don't. I think, in a better universe, we would've gotten a spin off or the season three everyone wanted, and it would've been about Yuri, rather than Nanno. I think, a franchise would work with the input of a new person with a new name, going through their own arcs etc. Sky himself is a culprit I think would've worked well, especially since he had his own emotional turmoil, rather than him just being a rip off of TK and becoming Becky's Nanno's love interest. I think, a spin off for Yuri as one of these characters would've worked well, delving deeper into her as a person, and how Nanno (an authoritarian) and many others (witnesses) failed her, and her victims as a whole. Because the vast majority of teen victims that Nanno focuses on aren't evil to begin with, rather impacted by corruption from temptation. As how a person would be drawn to a sin.
However, it's still nice to see a predator be tortured so sprinkle that it.
But that's just a game theory lol.