Yeah the end game was so bad
I was the same as you and thought there was absolutely no way Tom could win and was fully rooting for Werner to be eliminated every ep - but because he brought pretty much all the goats with him to the end and they turned on him, we ended up with two of the biggest goats of all time as the final two
Thankfully the first two thirds of the season were amazing and dazzling enough to make me not look upon this season poorly despite it's worst case scenario end game