They don't bother me at all, to read or to write.
My tastes in movies and books run pretty dark. For some reason, sad and tragic stories don't sadden me. If it's well told, and moves me, I end up satisfied, regardless of whether the end is happy or sad.
Several authors that I proof for have multiple diverse endings in stories that they write. I never took the ending of a story as gospel writ, it's all in the flow of the story. A major character meets an untimely end, and unexpected twist in the plot-line, all those factors are within the author's grasp of what the desired outcome of the story.
How does the story make the author feel, how does the story carry the reader to the journey's end...
I've known authors to lose the reader in the sudden termination of the story, of twists that make no sense, look at a story as the birth of a child, give it the loving foundation it deserves and the author may find that other chapters need to be added to the story, bringing it into the flow of a novel, that merely one short chapter does not the story tell.
It is your child, raise it well.
My universe may not necessarily agree with your's, but you have every right that you live happily in both.
Respect mine and I will respect yours. I fought and risked death for the right to be whom I am, even if I am clueless as to whom that may be.
I do not like the dark spots in My brain, but the spider webs are even worse.
Combat Veteran covers a vast arena, third degree burns from friendly fire with a disgruntled shipmate, stab wound from someone who felt is was permissible to hit a Lady with a twelve pack of alcohol; hit by a pickup truck by an individual on heroin. Was very quick to disabuse them of those ideas. Its all about control, only need physical contact in approximately 7 points of the body to enact terminal velocity upon those vermin.
I sure would prefer a happy ending when I'm at the Lotus Flower Girls Girls Girls massage parlor.
