I just wish the deaths would stop. I don't care if a character leaves town, goes to jail, the hospital, a convent, monastery, the Foreign Legion. Just enough already.
While, at times, it is a good thing.....it just has been overkill.
We all may not agree on who should stay dead, or who we would like back. Heck, I want Jack back, but sure not Arianna. It did not bother me at all to have Serena, Paige, or Stefano die, (especially the latter, as much as I admire & respect Joe Mascolo).
I don't thing Will should have been killed, though the shock value was great, the aftermath of was not.
And so......as always, it boils down to story, writing. And the "if" game. If Arianna & Brady had better story at the time, but they did not. IF Sami had really mourned her son's death, instead of getting all hung up on stealing/taking Stefano's liquid assets (Will should just have returned to CA, or joined Sonny in Paris), Paige could have gone to Stanford (but then Eve would not have had such good material to show that she really could show her acting chops). If some good actors did not decide to leave the show, if some terrific actors were given better story when they came aboard.
IF Corday really cared about the show as his parents did (yep, was not his thing, but he has made some really poor choices in re: who he has running the show instead )