Why try to explain?

I am at the point of not caring. I see folks trying to explain actions - not justify, but explain - taken by ASR, by Khushi and I am left thinking how can you do that? None of what we see right now in the show resembles anything close to what I happen to remember as these characters. I don't even remember Nani or Anjali or Shyam like this. There is character growth and then there is what I personally feel we have witnessed, which is character slaughter.

The Khushi I remember would never have buckled under to evil. That is the one thing that was so solid in her belief system, that good will always prevail over evil. Her belief was so strong in this that she smacked shyam for his deceit, that she is always praying to DM to help her choose the way of the righteous and just. So, how do you explain the complete brain fart and annihilation of self respect that is bringing back your own and your husband's murderer into a house, against the expressed wishes of the man whom you vowed to protect with your last to said murderer when you found out he kidnapped him. You can't, so why try. This is not the Khushi I remember, so I can't explain her.

The ASR I remember would have never allowed Shyam back in the house. He would have tossed out that fool regardless of his sister's tears or slow mo boogey down the stairs. The ASR I knew, would have shoved his decision down everyone's throats because when he is just, he faces his decisions. He has fallen in love, and while doing that, I guess his brains also fell out. The ASR I saw defend La's right to stay in the house, the ASR I saw stand up to those neighbors and pronounce that Khushi is his wife and should be treated as such, the ASR that I saw hold onto Khushi even while Dadi stood there, wouldn't have been like this. He would have fought right there. So, I am not going to explain, because this isn't the ASR I remember.

The Anjali that I remember wasn't this selfish selfcentered delusion manipulative attention seeker. She was manipulative in the past, with her walking out to the mandir to force Khushi's return and so forth, but she was open about it. Now she is a plain deceitful liar with flawed thinking. Chotte never lies, so he's right about Shyam, he lusted on Khushi, but Shyam is my life, I want him back and I also love that Khushiji is my sister in law, no hard feelings. No brain neither. I can't explain her, so not going to try.

When Nani feels she is right, she doesn't back down either. So what is this nonsense of her letting Shyam in also without a fight. She pushed back on La hard. She pushed back on ASR when he brought Khushi hard. So why is she like this now? Do we even have a real reason as to why the entire lot Raizada's Gupta's Malik's and Prakash's pander to Anjali? No. So, how can I explain or understand anything when there is no reason and the character has disappeared.

And Shyam. Well, when in the hell has this idiot villain ever succeeded and now he's predicting behavior and succeeding. Whatever. Can't explain, don't want to.

The sloppy story is now filled with loopholes and character assassinations to support the loopholes. I loved ArHi, but this is not them. And this story should have had the depth that this couple first exhibited in their relationships and their character. The story has been watered down to the typical and the characters have become shells of their former selves. That's the only explanation that works for anything here anymore.