I actually really love Jeff as character so I love these episodes about him, I really enjoyed seeing the AD writers explore Hayley's coping with the loss of her husband, "Tramping her room" as Francine said, and especially the animation of the state of her bedroom- with trash, plates, food, flies accumulating as she…

I also felt like that ending was unnecessary at first- but it was definitely an expected action by Roger. I had to watch it twice to fully appreciate the irony of the ending. If Max hadn't been killed by Roger, the writers would have had to continue using the character which I don't think they wanted to.