I mean I don't care to get in an argument of defining various verbs about it, but he played weakened teams in the league to rest his best XI for Europe.
And he did this with the luxury of a league position that, while utterly pathetic, was in literally zero risk of relegation.
As of the first leg of the Frankfurt QF we were 17 points clear of the drop with 7 games to go, and 11 adrift of European qualification by any other means than winning the EL.
Plus of course at that point he was going to be sacked literally within hours of our exit from Europe, which he would have royally deserved for being in 14th with 37 points from 31 games.
It ain't fuckin' rocket science to see that the Europa League was the only thing that mattered to Ange at that point.
And given that he's gone and not coming back (literally no one on this board is advocating to rehire him), I don't see how any reasonable person can't just be magnanimous about us having gotten the absolute best thing Ange would have ever been capable of giving us. We got his very best, and now both parties can move on with their lives.