And I love it, because usually these stories go the opposite route: emotional, "human" villain -> reaches understanding and calms down -> The end.
Here we have "calm, pragmatic villain -> emotional, "human" and it feels so natural. Stories usually go for that boring message where the winning move is to be rational and all, but here we see people, Eren and Ymir, give in to their human feelings and that's how most people would react irl, too. None of that high and mighty behavior of the usual anime hero. Fuck Kirito (lol, sorry).
Btw. sorry Mikasa, but towards the end of the episode, I was starting to ship Eren X Ymir ;>