I forgot to leave my feelings for SNAFU too! and I kind of want to do it
Honestly, I feel like my understanding of the anime as a whole severely lacked. I managed to follow what was happening, but there are lots of times where I failed to understand why things were happening or how they were happening. The character interaction is definitely the strongest point of this show, but it's also the most confusing one for me since there's a lot of telepathic communication, unspoken feelings expressed through vague facial cues, unexplained interpretations of what some characters say, and all that. I just sometimes get confused because statements like "I'm not as nice as you think I am" while looking down at the ground and smiling really requires me to pause and think what all of that means, and often I just keep watching anyway because if I stopped and pondered everytime it happens then I'd end up spending more than 30 mins in every episode. Sometimes I eventually get what they mean, but I feel like a lot of it went over my head and because they went over my head, I can't recall them.
All that said, this isn't really that big of a complaint from me, if anything it just adds rewatch value. I just wish that it wasn't like super subtle about a lot of things. I mean, it's either that or I have social skills deficiency, and I don't want it to be the latter.
The last episode, however, was brilliant for me. I really did take the time to comprehend everything that was happening, and this confirms that I might be wrong who best girl in the anime is.
I've never found secondhand embarrassment and "omg this is happening" moments to be entertaining in any media because it makes my asshole cringe harder than my teeth, and there's a lot of this in the final episode, but I still somehow loved it. I paused a lot of times in this episode and tried to compose myself because I've never felt this intense for an episode that doesn't have any action. I always thought that Yukinon was going to be best girl hands down, but I've grown to appreciate Yui's character more and more as this show progressed. EP 13 is basically what made me think that she's not inferior. I feel like now I understand her personality much better, since she used to be just that quirky girl that doesn't have anything to do with the romance of two socially inept characters. She was out of place this whole time and was obviously destined to accept her fate and move on, but now her role in the story has become much more significant for me because she's the type of nice girl that Hikki hates, but I find to actually be more similar to him than Yukinon is. Her self-sacrificing is something that Hikki himself should understand very well, so I feel like they can actually work.
The latter part of this anime is all about Yui and I just love it. And right as I'm starting to love the anime more... it ends.
I don't want this to be another Spice and Wolf or another Haruhi so everyone please pray to the anime gods that this story will be completed. Please.