No, he wouldn’t. If you think he would, if you really bought into the “anyone can die” hype, you never really understood the series. It’s not the exercise in subversion people think it is, it’s a reconstruction of fantasy tropes. Amazing how deeply people bought into a misunderstanding of the series based on the death…

The night king etc was never the point of the series. If you thought he was so central he might be killed and brought back just so as to have the drama of him being the end boss instead a mere subplot, you might want to do a broader reconsideration of the series.

It's not the show runners' decision, it's grrm's decision. This series has always been a retelling of the war of the roses, and the supernatural stuff has always been nothing more than a sideshow to keep the mass audience paying attention so grrm could spin out his retelling of the war of the roses. It's a shame grrm…