I understand, but it does kind of come off as “Gwen works best as a corpse.” A sentiment I very much disagree with as Peter was already Spider-Man for several years (IRL), and it didn’t change him in magnitude of the way Uncle Ben’s death did. It wasn’t about the character’s growth. It’s that Conway liked MJ better and wanted to get rid of Gwen, so he went with that when May was slated to die (something I also would’ve disagreed with). Killing characters that weren’t created to be killed is dumb IMO. It’s cheap and an easy way to garner shock and impact.