So much word on all of that. I could handle disagreeing with the characters actions/morality if I think it is in-character (say for Sheppard and Beckett), but the stupidity burns.

Exactly, yes.

And I, too, feel a bit like Kavanaugh. He made a lot of sense, at times (he was certainly right about Weir's managing style).

They can have contrary views and promote different solutions without being enemies or one being right and the other wrong. They managed it for Jack and Daniel, what was so hard about doing it this time?

I know! You'd think that that they'd understand how to do that sort of thing by now.