NGL I opened up my inbox this morning like yIkES. Y’all don’t fuck around with these questions lol. But anywayyyyyy…
I am aware that a lot of people feel uncomfortable about how the show dealt with Adam. As a queer, I too would have preferred he not die - my general mood is let the gays live - but that being said … his death made sense to me in terms of narrative? It didn’t seem like it was unnecessary, and from the interview snippets of LM and JDS, it does seem like they thought it out and this was the best course of action to further the plot.
Adam as a character might have deserved better treatment, but considering that we had like 3 seconds of him in general, I’d be hesitant to say he’s anything more than a plot device, like Ulaz or Heath. And we’ve had characters like that before (those two bois lol), that are introduced as plot-furthering devices only to be killed off for emotional value - RIP various Blade of Marmora characters - and that was Adam’s entire purpose. Firstly, as a way for VLD to explicitly say that Shiro is gay, and secondly, as a way to make the viewer go “OH SHIT EARTH IS FUCKED”. JDS and LM explained it far better than I ever could in the snippets I’ve read (which I’ll amend with if I come across my dash, but won’t go looking for because I’m not going to subject myself to the antis’ bullshit), but honestly, I don’t see his treatment as anything more than furthering the plot.
TL;DR I would have preferred he lived and get why that would be disappointing, but I understand why they chose to kill him off.