I can't help but laugh at anyone who ever thought Dany was a good person or a role model. Did y'all think Trump was good too because he'd occasionally go "I want coal miners to have jobs again!" while simultaneously fucking things up for literally everyone else in the country (and beyond)?

The "good" things she did, she did for herself. She did them so that she could destroy anyone and anything that stood between her an the Iron Throne. It has ALWAYS been that way. How on earth did anyone ever think "oh, she helped some people, she's a hero"? It boggles my mind. She never struck me as anything more than annoyingly self-centered (seriously, announcing that paragraph-long title every time you talk about her....), and one-dimensional (I'm great, because dragons). She would be nothing without those things, which the show has very clearly demonstrated that she's aware of based on her reactions each time one of them gets offed. (And for what it's worth, every single time Jon insists that she's his queen even in the face of horrific actions, I just want to smack him in the face and yell "what the hell is wrong you with, boy?!"

This is no sudden character change. This is just her true colors finally being shown clearly enough for people who somehow couldn't see them before.