User blog comment:Neetaku/A (Better) Rewrite of Attack on Titan/@comment-28770331-20181010032041/@comment-24407809-20181011053318

Read my last message to RuneLai. Having a character be killed off after their arc is done is not bad writing, keeping a character around for years after their arc was finished is bad writing.

Soldiers are usually instructed in battle situations not to target civilians, and it's obvious from the way Jean talked to Floch that this was also true of the Survey Corps soldiers during their attack. Dieter would have hesitated to shoot Gabi the same way Lobov did, which would have given her the opening needed to kill him. It's not bad writing if the it is a (unfortunately) realistic scenario.