>all they had to add was a single shot -- a reaction closeup
>on whoever negan picked -- and then go right into the POV
>beatdown. that would've been 1000x better.

I agree with this; and then start season 7 off by actually showing the character getting their head bashed in and then everyone else's reaction to it. It looks like that's how they will start off season 7 anyway according to interviews with Gimple. The only thing is we'll now know who gets killed (we will all probably know by then since it will most likely be leaked once filming starts).