I can agree, whole heartedly, that a character must grow. Remaining static in an ongoing story is poor writing.
However, previously everyone grew at a different pace. Slowly, as you would expect. But lately it's been major change.
Previously the story with Cyclonus and Tailgate took time, they grew, they changed, and they did it at a pace that didn’t seem... jarring and out of the blue. It was natural and felt real.
No keeping Tailgate naive would have been bad, but his perspective will always be different from his experiences, he missed so much life and war, he will always have an outside view. And that's what makes him special, his view as someone who did not have to live through the horror.
The super powers feel trope-y.
Even though I feel Megatron's change was a bit jarring (and still don't like it, but I can accept it as the character growing and realizing he had strayed from his original beliefs) at least it was less suoer...
If you like mini hulk Tailgate, great
i'm not going to convince you it's wrong, we all are entitled to opinions
I just think it was handled wrong. But the whole issue was. I still believe it was rushed and that's the reason why it feels wrong.