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Anti-wokes are mostly just temporarily-embarassed wokes, what else is new?
What, hiding behind Muh Social Issue to excuse/justify bad writing? That wasn't really a widespread thing in the '80s [or at least, if it was, the media like this has been consigned to the dustbin where it belongs], so doing that in what bills itself as an '80s highlight reel is... going to cause some whiplash, to put it lightly.
That said, though, there are a few good stereotypically-'80s series that proceeded to get worse and more flanderized as time went on (I'm mostly thinking of the slasher movies here) into the point of unrecognizability, perhaps it is indeed period-accurate.
No, the justified reaction is that this plot point was fucking stupid, because...
...Will doesn't have any meaningful personal story or character growth. Not that there was much of that post-S1 anyway for any of the other S1 characters, but Will didn't even get an establishing character moment in S1 or S2 beyond "be the MacGuffin" (and the growth [or active de-growth, for that matter] he did get in S2 kind of erased what little he had in S1), and that's ignoring all the retcons.
So he's in the unenviable position of both being a perfect vehicle for Author's Pet Cause without really having earned any of it. But then, that's also a hallmark of modern culture too, so maybe that's actually period-accurate and I'm just complaining too much about it; now if you'll excuse me, I have some Doritos to eat.
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