I am actually cancelling my Netflix subscription over this. You cannot spend four seasons coding Will and Mike as soulmates, having Will paint that painting, and giving us all those longing looks just to have Mike end up with Eleven in a suburban nightmare. It is textbook queerbaiting. They used the gay audience for engagement and then chickened out at the last second to give the locals a 'safe' ending. Will crying in the van in Season 4 meant nothing. The Duffer Brothers are cowards