I have always been in the minority, but I actually thought the last season was fine.
Could it have been better? yes
Would I have preferred it to be different? sure
Jon Snow being resurrected was a GREAT tactic by the show runners, because it subverted expectations.
Hate it if you want, but NO ONE has ever been able to claim that they knew how it would turn out, or how "it was obvious". the show was the most talked about thing in media for MONTHS leading up to the final season, and out of the tens of thousands of fan theories and guesses - not one "knew".
The pill is also a bit easier to swallow (for me at least) because I know that the books will have a different ending. And, if you have read the books, you know that there have been a TON of differences, so you could almost look at them as being two entirely different series - just based on the same general plotline.