Rick isn't even my favorite character....probably never has been.
But in my opinion...yeah...the show would suffer greatly from his absence. I mean suffer more than it already has by some instances of subpar writing and plotting.
The thing some people might not consider is how long it takes a new character to really take hold...if ever. The mystery of the combination of charisma and chemistry is something that creators of all media never quite solve until time tells the tale. So you never really know what will work until it does work.
It's not like they can just throw some new characters into the mix and just hold their breath. Even the older established characters take a season or 3 to get our attention. Consider Michonne or Sasha or Abraham. Michonne has become one of my favorites but it took several seasons..And Sasha and Abraham had probably been on there 3 or 4 before they really worked for me. And then they had to die, of course.
And then there's the Tara's and the Jesus and the like. I like them ok but would barely notice if they weren't there anymore.
And all this is not to mention that Rick is our gateway to the apocalypse in the first place. It has been his journey all along whether you like him or not. He's likely to die but he's also not likely to die until close to the end...And rebooting without him...and other familiar characters, would be a different show and how often that doesn't work is pretty clear if you look around at other shows. It just doesn't tend to work.
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