Okay, well, I'll get going again. Don't say I didn't warn you.
No, these people completely make sense. That's the worst of it, in story-- while the Survey Corps is thinking that by putting a face to the island Eldians they may be able to convince them of their humanity, Eren rightly deduces that they'll only ever be seen as threat by non-Eldians because they are a threat, because they can turn into giant man-eating monsters at the drop of a hat, and they in fact used this power to subjugate the world centuries ago until one of their kings inexplicably cucked out after centuries of civil war and took a portion of his subjects to ɹɐɔsɐƃɐpɐW. Non-island Eldians have no incentive to join the island Eldians at the bottom of the civilization's totem pole, so they can't even get support from their own kind.
Actually Eldia lost because of a plague, they split apart and then Marley pushed their shit in. They decided to retreat to Paradis and King Cuck built the walls and then brainwashed everyone to forget what happened because he thought it would save his people from further atrocity. When it didn't, he just fully cucked out and decided to fucking starve them, torture them and slowly murder them because its 'what they deserved'.
The peace deal fucking sucked, which is why King Cuck is the worst character in the series because if he just nutted up and said, "If you don't leave our island alone, we're going to fucking wreck your shit again." He was self hating and deserved a more painful death.
Again, they're caricatures. What have the Eldians done in 200 years? Nothing. Sit in the walls. If King Cuck let them have their fucking memories maybe nobody would try to go out there. Instead Marley treats it as a concentration camp and constant punishment for a war they lost like 400 years ago. At some point you just gotta go, "Bro, just let them have the island and blockade it." The don't act like rational human beings. Why should I feel compassion? Its part of the reason people got behind Eren's retarded genocide idea, because the story just makes it the only conclusion possible. Eren still could have taken his time, done tactical strikes, worked it out with the scouts, and reduced the world's level of technology to below Paradis'. They could have stolen the world's tech. Then went, "We're not going to conquer you, but stay the fuck off our island or we'll come back and burn you to cinders." A story leading to pure genocide of humans, which we can understand, doesn't strike me as realistic. Isayama had to make the people of the world like they were in order to force it. It suspends my disbelief because rational humans don't act like that.
...what about Ramzi, Hamil, their community that the Survey Corps spent time with, Annie's father, Grisha's father, or the rest of the Brauns?
Its a handful, for the most part we see the vast majority calling for their death.
I don't know what audience support has to do with the protagonist/antagonist dynamic. Eren's generally the protagonist (and I hope we can accept that as an axiom), and the "Cringe Avengers" are effectively the antagonists because they oppose him. I'd argue that they were at least sufficiently developed going into the final conflict-- even before the on-the-nose reconciliation talks between the various characters of the coalition-- but... that dynamic is a rather low bar, so I'm kind of at a loss as to trying to think of what else you could be referring to.
Stories are all about emotion and emotional weight. Yes, he's the protagonist because he's driving the action. The problem is, if the audience can no longer relate to Eren and him killing the world, that emotional connection is severed. Which means people no longer care. The antagonists, if you can call the cringe avengers that, have largely been reactionary. I don't consider them well-developed characters at all. They simply follow Eren's shadow. That's what I mean when they're not a sufficient counterweight to him. I mean what's their plan? Use explosion and cut Eren? Without Armins Deus Ex Machina nonsense, its like every plan they've used for the series almost. Its not inspiring. Its not unique. Its the same. The stakes to me just aren't there.
I don't have an emotional connection to the world at large. I don't have an emotional connection to Eren's actions (except hilarity). I don't have an emotional connection to the antagonists. Its basically, "Why should I care?" I've been given no reason to do so. I've not seen enough of the outside world except a very few small sections to care why it gets blown the fuck up. In a story, even in an act as evil as genocide, I need a reason to give a shit. The story does not give me a good enough reason. "Genocide bad is simply not good enough." Just like I keep saying, people would rather everyone on that shitty no name planet die than Captain Kirk.
But how fine is the line between "this world isn't giving me what I'd find suitable or the building blocks thereof" and "this world is actively conspiring to force this particular outcome"? It's as if you're simultaneously arguing that Eren had other choices and the narrative was forcing him into a position where genocide was the only thing he could do (i.e. he didn't have any other choices). And I think that ties into how you regard the world opposing Paradis as a collection of racist caricatures, except that the Eldians arouse anything from fear to disgust, and the reactions to those feelings are themselves varied. Here-- I've already described why Eldians are mistrusted as per the narrative. Since you're arguing that the hatred of Eldians is caricatured, what would you think would be a more rational basis for universal hatred of the Eldian? I imagine it's not the mere fact that they're nearly universally hated, since that much is possible (e.g. the Jews through most of the Common Era).
The Jews were hated, but I mean they take it above and fucking beyond. I'm not saying the world is, I'm saying the narrative is forcing him to do so as the only choice. He's constantly being pushed towards it. There doesn't seem to be any way out. Which is another reason why people laugh at the story, because its seemingly saying "Sometimes, you just have to genocide" and that is ludicrous.
The problem is so much time has passed between the war between Marley and Eldia, where Eldia has been in complete exile and has posed no threat for centuries, they're acting like the war happened just two days ago. Sure there can be hatred, but I call them caricatures because the insanity is that they're in exile on an island and have no boats. The rest are in camps. For centuries.
There is no rational basis for the extreme hatred and persecutions, there just isn't, unless you had another titan like the founder just brainwashing the populace to hate Paradis. People have been mortal enemies, killing each other and putting them in camps and 50 years later their shaking hands. Here they've been torturing, starving and killing Eldians for centuries. There's not a rational basis for this.
It simply doesn't work unless the world has a King Cuck version 2 who is pushing the hatred on the citizens constantly. Wouldn't that be interesting? Two founders who want to kill the Eldians, one radiating out waves of hatred, the other serenity and forgetfulness, towards one horrible goal and Eren realizes this? And that's his plan, but no one believes him? That would be a rational justification for their extreme hatred. Otherwise it breaks my suspension of disbelief. They defeated Eldia in a war even though they had Titans. It proves they're not this invincible civilization. They don't have any warriors or shifters. That have king cuck keeping them in line. So why are they constantly being terrorized? It doesn't make sense.
