DemonKing said:This ending would have been perfect if the series ended with L's death.
But the author had to bring near and mel, to defeat light yagami, to make it look like, the justice always prevail.
That's the reason why people dislike death note's ending.
And, in the process, Light became dumber(plot induced stupidity(PIS)), the screenplay sucked, the dialogues sucked, and Near and Mel didn't have enough time to prove themselves to be worthy successors of L, or worthy enemies of Light