A lot of people also can't handle the fact that the killed off Joel.
Which don't really get why so many people have a problem with Ellie being the main character rather than Joel, because if you look at the franchise as a whole, it's really been more Ellie's story than Joel's from the beginning. Yeah, you play as Joel in the first game, but his story kicks off with him being put in charge of Ellie, and then you have the comic, American Dreams, which is a prequel focused on Ellie, and then Left Behind also focuses on Ellie between AD and the first game. So out of the four parts of the franchise we've gotten so far, only 1 of them focuses on Joel.
Which don't really get why so many people have a problem with Ellie being the main character rather than Joel, because if you look at the franchise as a whole, it's really been more Ellie's story than Joel's from the beginning. Yeah, you play as Joel in the first game, but his story kicks off with him being put in charge of Ellie, and then you have the comic, American Dreams, which is a prequel focused on Ellie, and then Left Behind also focuses on Ellie between AD and the first game. So out of the four parts of the franchise we've gotten so far, only 1 of them focuses on Joel.