I'm glad they didn't kill him solely due to the reaction to Haurchefant's death. Two years of dealing with the reactions that never seem to stop and only get more and more dramatic as time passes has been excruciating and I don't want to go through the same Gosetsu melodrama. I'd like a break for a bit. All joking aside, I'm glad that they didn't kill them. I don't want them to set the bar for expansions at exactly 1 pseudo important character death must happen.