Wrong mentality

Hajime no Ippo is almost 1500 chapters long and there is still a lot to be done story wise, but recently this sub has been talking more and more about the characters and plot lines as a check list: "oh now that mashiba lost we just have to wait for sendo to lose too and Ippo will return", "i can't wait for x character story to end so we can focus on y character" i fell like thats kinda of a miserable way to read a series with characters as compelling as this one.