Adric was a thoughtful and sensitive soul.
I second your unpopular opinion!
Adric was wonderful.
Probably because I was a sad, math-nerdy 11-year-old who discovered and fell in love with Doctor Who through Full Circle, State of Decay, and Warriors’ Gate.
I so wanted to be Adric, escaping to somewhere more interesting than where I lived, where I could adventure and be appreciated.
It really, really sucked for me when they killed him. His final, “Now I'll never know if I was right” was a perfectly horrible way to go.
At the time, it also seemed a perfect encapsulation of the very worst thing I imagined about death. (Then, definitely not now.)