I think this butchering of his character will only go on till the remarriage of Jai and Bani. At least, for 6-7 months, they did not butcher his character. In fact, I felt that Pushkar was butchered to bring out the power of JW. Even during the post ONS, while the forum condemned him for the act, his character was still not made totally weak. Some integrity was shown like his total repentence, his acceptance of Bani without question, his guilt etc. I think just before the leap and post leap, his character suffered the most.
Somehow, I feel that this will not continue further than the marriage cos then the all important custody document will I think have no value. I don't think that Jai will ever become the raging bull again cos Bani has changed him forever. But I feel this full circle track has potential if and only if handled properly. Another thing is the AD revenge and the reason. If they do show Jai as guilty, then I hope that the creatives show him accepting it with honesty as they have done in the past!
Every Balaji serial has the male protagonist shown as helpless at some point or the other, be it Bajaj, Mihir, Anurag or any other hero. I feel that Jai cannot escape this reality. However much we want him to be wily and cunning, it is Bani's revenge and so he has to be shown as helpless or Bani's revenge will not be effective!
The thing is, after the marriage, Jai will be busy with a raging Durga, a "I will never stop trying" Pia and
"I'm going to destroy Walia" AD. Then it will not make sense for the creatives to show him as weak. I think they will resurrect him then, after all in SBS PD did say that the revenge track wasn't going well and it was going to be a love story again. So, keep up the hope, JW will be back, not as a RB but I'm sure he will be shown positively juggling Durga, Pia and AD. 😉