I think PBD's problem as an album closer is that AWE exists, otherwise there might not be quite the criticism in some ways.
I agree partly on this one.
On the other hand, I personnally usually don't care if the last song of an album is a closer or not, except on concept albums like SFAM or SDOIT.
PBD reminds me of TDOE in a grim and stressed version, with singing, so I love it.
But I'm still working on my rearranged track list order, I would have put PBD first and AWE last, but maybe that would have been taking a risk ?
It's not because singles were released that they needed to be first !
Plus the opener has angel+clean guitar arpeggio etc...That's a déjŕ vu