For once, FT actually went in a direction that I wasn't expecting. I was definitely expecting the typical shounen ending with a timeskip where all the different ships were married and had clone kids, but we surprisingly didn't get any of that......which actually really pisses me off. This manga reached such amazing levels of bullshit that the ships became the only thing I cared about in the end (and I absolutely HATE ships/shipping/shippers, so that's a testament to how bad Mashima's writing is, to make me actually care about something I hate). However, it seems, from what I gathered from the raws, that none of the ships sailed, despite the endless teasing over and over. Maybe Mashima wanted to play it safe and not upset people who shipped, for example, Natsu/Gray with Erza, or Gray with Lucy, etc.
Oh well, the fact of the matter is that it's finally over. I suppose I'll have enough decency to congratulate Mashima for over 10 years of success with this, but as someone else above mentioned, he should consider focusing on the art (hot damn, look at the way he draws these females lol) and get a better story writer for future works....that's probably not going to happen though. 4/10 for this overall, and it most certainly won't be missed by me.
Now to wait for the anime to come back and relive all of this in animated form.