While I'm happy that it got an ending at all, and I get that they had constraints from the axe, I can't help but feel like they wasted the pages they were given.
Like, I'm not even mad about the misunderstanding from the last few chapters that a lot of others were upset by. But the confession and subsequent "I love you" back literally took 3 pages of the 44 total pages this chapter... and it DIDN'T EVEN INVOLVE THE CAKE?? The whole central theme of the manga was that he was trying to convey his feelings through his baking, and that was also what triggered the prior misunderstanding in the first place... and he just says that he loves her out loud instead?
THEY DON'T EVEN EAT THE CAKE IN THE PAGES WE'RE GIVEN, IT'S JUST IMPLIED
Maybe, maybe, in a 200 chapter version of this it would be funny or fitting for him to learn that he needed to speak his love out loud rather than relying on his baking, but that's not what we were given. I'm not a writer, but I feel like the obvious way to write this is that she actually tastes the cake, and realizes his feelings because the cake was baked specifically for her, therefore resolving the misunderstanding. Instead, we get 3 pages of the most basic love confession even written, which is a real shame.