Why is people even complaining yet again about that section of ANtR on a "controversial thread", when is not controversial at all??...
You want controversial?: I love the song as it is.. Also, the "without warning" section and the part right after the MP's vocals are very underrated sections of the songs.. And why do I say underrated? well, because I think that if there wasn't so much hatred felt and/or expressed regarding the song's final minutes I feel those parts would be more liked and/or positively rated..
Controversial opinion: I think the Beautiful Agony section in ANTR works perfectly within the track & shouldn't have been its own song. The very reason it works so well is because it's such a contrast to the tone of the rest of the song without being sudden or feeling like it doesn't belong (not to mention that the main riff in the section being a really good motif of the main riff in ANTR).
I agree with this!, although I've never heard/read someone saying that the section should've been a song on its own..
Also, I don't know to which "main riff" are you talking about.. The "Beautiful Agony" section doesn't have what you'd call a "riff"... Maybe you're talking about the vocal melody of the two main verses?.. Because that's the only leitmotif the song has (Basically "A nightmare to remember, I'll never be the same" is, saving the context, the same as "Lying on the table, In this unfamiliar place")..