I've accepted that the showmakers will never treat Billy with the same love and care as Dacre or the fandom does and that's okay.
Because every time they throw him in the dumpster, I'll fish him out, hose him down, fix his hair, give him a set of clean clothes and a kiss on the cheek and send him out into my fic and art to be his sleazy hair metal self who's thirsting after the dethroned King of Hawkins, Steve "The Hair" Harrington, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop me.