I mostly had a dislike for Goro Akechi because there was another character with a similar name that I hated. Mitsuhide Akechi. But I will admit though. As a "Good" Persona User, Akechi had style. "My skills exceed yours" sounded pretty good out of him.

Akechi-kun has critics!!(￣･ω･￣)

Akechi was blown out of the water, he was outsmarted and tricked by the very people he was attempting to deceive.
Sure you can call it disappointing, but I think it's more making the phantom thieves look great, rather than just making Akechi out as being bad.

Put into that context Skull I can see why that choice was made. That being said I actually enjoyed the character and really wanted to get more out of him, making his obvious turn that more annoying for me I guess.

Akechi could have been awesome but they blew it by turning him into a generic psycho villain.

So much potential and they totally dropped the ball with him. Even worse, no one even mentions him after his battle. It's like he gets deleted from everyone's minds.

I don't believe the fact that he was a villain was the main draw.
He was popular. He was charming. He was against the Phantom Thieves.
And he could hear Mona.

These were all very solid factors that lead the events to happen the way they did, and I do believe that the "How we force his hand and reveal him" was by far more important than that "He was a villain"

Spending the whole game bonding with him, and getting to understand who he is just to be thrown away in the 3rd act seems pretty reckless to me.

I believe his 'vainglory' got the best of him. Though...I don't think he may be dead...

Call it a hunch that a roach like him may be alive.

I feel it ended as it did because he didn't really die and they aren't done with him. I don't think we're supposed to feel any "closure."

Well to me, I like the guy as an antagonist. After the dumb shit that was Adachi throwing people in the TV cuz "I'm an asshole", this is a person with such a better motive

Akechi himself wasn't a bad character.

What disappointed me was the fact he was so well designed, but so ungodly transparent.

This and his subsequent dislike is probably due to the fact that Adachi was Lightning in a Bottle, a very good and almost perfectly designed and hidden villain who kept you on your toes until the very end of the game.

Where as halfway through this game I figured out Akechi was a bad guy because of the way he was acting, and it was confirmed when he then joined the party and had a god tier Persona.

Too many pancakes

You also need to account for who he was working for, and why he was doing it. He was a hitman for Shido, and was doing it to make his father feel proud of him. If you ask me, sometimes the simplist reason is the most effective. His sacrifice felt like a proper redemption to me and made me want to take Shido down even more.

Also am I the only one who got a Light Yagami vibe from him?

Akechi got memed boys, thats about the worst way to go out in any universe.

I was actually thinking anyone but Akechi would be the traitor since it would be to obvious otherwise...

I feel like the "twist" about him being evil was a bit of a red herring. Imo the real twist was him being a Wild Card and his other persona being Loki.

I think Akechi being the traitor wasn't supposed to be THE twist. They established that there was a traitor from the very start, then made it ridicilously obvious that it's Goro.
The mandatory SL, the OP persona that's somehow weak to its own elemental affinity, his demeanour throughout the entire casino, not to mention the whole "Let's wait until the very last day to send the calling card mmkay? :^)".

I believe they made it so obvious that he's the traitor because him being the traitor isn't supposed to be the twist. That the Phantom Thieves didn't fall for it either and used the opportunity to throw him off their trail is the actual twist in my mind.