We don’t talk about narrative trends like the “bury your gays” trope so we can get on Tumblr Dot Com and scream at every single content creator who writes a queer character who dies at some point in the course of the narrative.
This type of critique exists to
A.) Point out troubling TRENDS in representation, and especially (most of the time) to put those treads into a social and historical context so we can understand why they became common and what their implications are for queer people and our larger society.
B.) To critique specific instance in which this trope is still used and the ways in which it is unoriginal and damaging to how Queer people see ourselves and are seen by others.
It does not exist to denounce every piece of media that kills off a queer character.
None of the critical lenses through which we discuss representation of marginalized people exist to do that.
If that is what you are doing, you don’t understand how story telling works.