Why, EastEnders, why?

I know I go on about EastEnders a lot for a soap I claim to hate, but axing one of the few decent characters left in the soap is really irritating. Undercover manicurist Kate Mitchell is one of the few rounded residents of the Square, and ideally the entire cast should be axed alowing she and Chrissie to restart the show from scratch. And as for the rumours of yet more unrealistic gangsters arriving in Walford, it's taking exactly the same path to doom as Brookside. Even in psycho Sarah does kill off the Fowlers (which she doesn't), we still need some real plots.