Yeah the Mona thing was coming from a mile away, but I still held out hope til I saw CorpseMona at the end. And even then, there have been so many fakeouts, there's a little hope left in me.
I can appreciate having a meaningful death and Mona being too formidable alive, but she was just fun to have around. I was loving the idea of the show picking back up with a war against Ali's mega army. And it would have changed this dynamic of almost always being on the defensive, just being tormented repeatedly by A, following every "lead" (even if they know A planted it?!), still being complete idiots about discretion and secrecy 99% of the time.