I like both Ezri and Jadzia, but Rick Berman did Terry Ferrell dirty and that's the only reason we had Ezri. So I like Ezri, but there never should have been an Ezri.
She wanted to be on Becker so it was her fault. Berman could have been nice and written her into fewer episodes. But it was her moving to a major network show that killed her off.
Becker was a high profile major network show which would have gone along with a major salary increase. If she really wanted to leave, she wouldn't have ask to stay but written out of more episodes so as to not conflict with her Becker schedule.
I like Ezri. It was somewhat crazy to me that they never originally intended on killing her off to begin with.
Like, they created a race that can (sort of) Doctor Who style turn into a brand new person, and their plan was to never utilise that beyond one season 1 episode where someone steals the Dax symbiote?
That's crazy to me. Don't get me wrong, they did utilise the "I have multiple lifetimes of experience" aspect, but never intending to give her a new character was a little odd.
I really liked Ezri. It's just really unfortunate what happened to Terry Farrell that made it happen.
As far as I remember, I don't think we were ever told how long a symbiote can live for, as such it'd be kinda cool for a Dax to show up in the final season of DISCO. I highly doubt that will happen, but it'd be cool :)