I still think he got the best ending. He didn’t want anything to do with political theatre and in being the king beyond the wall, he doesn’t ever have to deal with that again, simple people for a simple, fair, and honest man. It’s kind of poetic, his whole arc was based on him being the ward/son of the most honorable man in Westeros (next to Stannis), and how much it pained him internally to break his oaths and his word. He killed his Night watch brother in half hand, even though half hand told him to do it, he still had to reconcile killing his own sworn brother. He killed the only two women he loved, he betrayed his oath to infiltrate the wildings and then betrayed Mance Raider, who was good to him. He did all that for the watch, and his own brothers did him. He broke the oath of the watch, then he betrayed the watch again in the way he brought the wildings in. He constantly had to compromise his ideals to do the “right” thing for the good of the people. He was a part of a massacre at kings landing, he was conflicted, but blood was on his hands. He killed Dany for the good of the realm, he really did love her, his character had the most internal conflict, and he was given an ending where, in my own head canon, he never has to reconcile another conflict in his head. Nobody in the Planetos is ever gonna go beyond the wall to call the banners of the wildings because Jon Snow never has to swear fealty to any great houses again. The freest man in Westeros
