Well, I haven't seen everything.

Speaking as someone who watched the entirety of The Shield between the Breaking Bad finale and now, Placeholder's right. The Shield's final episode, and possibly most of that season, top everything I've seen on TV up to this point.

I get the sense that the kind of ending you wanted would just feel like a lesser repeat of The Shield's finale. Which I guess wouldn't be a bad thing, but Breaking Bad always struck me as an extremely solipsistic show, which this ending fits better.