Yes!! It's like everyone looks past those things and just focuses on the bad parts instead of the meaning behind the bad things. They just say "he's still a criminal, he's still that" "It doesn't justify what he's done", he didn't kill actual people ya know. It's okay to justify it in a fictional sense if it's got traumatic reasoning behind it. Not in the real world because real people would have actually died. He was changing for the better ever so slowly, but it was that cop that just ruined everything. Sometimes, to make a story good, it's good to let the "bad guy" get away with it.
when i saw the fallen ash my mind switched to Yoonbum and him trying to pick up Sangwoo's ashes and now im sad.