...Am I seriously the only one around here who actually enjoys the directions the story's been going in and wants to see how it all ends instead of complaining all the time when something goes in a way I didn't wish it to?

Besides, this could be careening to the start of act 7 right now - it's represented by a white dot while at 6 was represented by a green one. And, well, a huge burst of white (Jake's hope) just owned Grimbark Jade (powered by the Green Sun). This seems to be a common theory going around on Tumblr, as well.
Also, if you didn't like Grimbark jade, this blast may knock her back to normal... this death is neither heroic (duh) nor just (corrupted, yes, but caused by the )(IC, not Jade willfully), so I think any panic is misplaced (and boy is there plenty of misplaced panic on Tumblr).
Edit: And there it is. And she was only KO'd, at that! BV