So I'm about 70% of the way through book 7 Been really enjoying the series after pushing through most of the first book

but I've had a few big issues crop up really close to each other. Obviously I'm going to be discussing spoilers down below so read at your own risk as I'm not 100% how the spoiler tags work so I might mess it up.

First why on earth did they >! Fridge Thea after all the build up for the least satisfying romantic conclusion of all time!<

Next. What shitty editor decided to throw in a 3 year time skip randomly in a book. Rather than end out the first book.

Just seems really clumsily handled. Which if its published on RR as a serial I get but surely this is what editing is meant to stamp out.

So basically what I want to know is. Does more crap like this happens that lowers the quality (imo) of the plot.

Or does it get better?