Moral fagging par excellence. This sucked. Jimmy walked away from a seven year sentence to life for no reason at all. Nothing he said could possibly have helped Kim.
The bit about a bar license not having an expiration is bullshit as well. You have to a pay a license fee bi yearly, and if you resign, you have to get readmitted, usually meaning taking the bar again, go through character and fitness (which she would never pass after how she was complicit with the cover up of Howard Hamlin's murder.
Vince Gilligan was explicit about his sensibilities about "catholic guilt," and he knew he wanted the character to lose in a way he did not have the guts to do with Walter White.
Here's a tip for you, kiddies: if you go from seven years to life in prison, things are not ok. And things are not ok when the love of your life abandons me because she is crippled with guilt, especially when she was the onyl one on the planet who professed to love and understand you.
I feel stupid investing seven years in this show. It was a fun ride until the aftermath of Howard Hamlin's death. It really fell apart in the Gene timeline--and that as someone who liked the first two Gene episodes...