The issue is more that he had a starring role in every episode and then was cut out of the last two. He has a cameo in the finale but it’s only for a few moments and not even waving goodbye. It’s a random throwaway line of conversation with Seven of Nine. He was with them for 7 entire years and then vanished. Didn’t even say goodbye to Voyager as it left the Delta Quadrant and presumably doesn’t even know it left until much later. There’s no payoff. The whole time he’s helping Voyager get home, being the Morale Officer to help them feel less homesick, and he doesn’t even get the courtesy of being excited for his new family and happy that they finally got home. Just feels really shitty to me to do that. Sure, it would have just been a cameo, but it would have been a payoff to the characters involvement instead of saying “Don’t worry, even though you’re not on the ship you’re still part of our family” and then not giving him an emotional moment like the crew had.
And thanks <3 I just spam Star Trek stuff to get new people on board. Actually a temporal agent in disguise trying to fix a fractured timeline. Shh.