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It was.
And then he understood he became too big, and started to delete himself from everywhere. It was exactly about him facing the consequences of his actions.
Facing consequences, yes, but The heart of that is not him "a dick" and people calling him out on arrogance. That is his reputation for being a hero catching up with him and endangering his life because all of his enemies are obsessed with destroying him; he's now "feared" because he's done so much, mostly good.
Doesn't mean he wasn't to blame. And then he forced Rory to make choices.
He never really had a choice, it was either that or destruction. It was a sucky situation but it seems cruel to blame the Doctor for that. Traveling with the Doctor is dangerous, bad things will happen and he can't always fix everything, though MOST of the time he does, amazingly.
He made that choice pretty easily. Amy called him on that.
And then an innocent man died because of his actions.
I think you're focusing on the wrong aspects of the story. This guy was murdered and tortured people, the Doctor just saw it with his own eyes. Mercy is something you give to people that don't deserve it. He was completely in the right to hand Jex over for justice and he had no way of knowing at that point where showing mercy would be the right thing to do. The fact that the sheriff put his own life at risk to save the man is what really convinced him that he wasn't just a murderer. And again, you can't blame his death on the Doctor, that's undermining that man's selfless act of courage.
And yet, people complain now. Because, let's be honest he is a lot more pragmatic than any of his predecessors. It's the Doctor who allows people to pay with their lives for their own mistakes. Giving false hope is pretty harsh, and as far as I remember Eleventh was against that completely. Ten would apologise at least three times. I can understand where fans going from, but, unlike them I'm not complaining.
He wasn't giving false hope to be a dick, though. He just didn't have time to explain it, and it might have failed if he did because the guy might have freaked out.
I don't think that's worse than when Seven bombarded Ace with soul-crushing insults because he had to break her "faith bubble" around them.
The people having the most issues are a minority of people that only know Ten and Eleven and hate or ignore Nine. He seems about equally pragmatic to Four, Six and Seven so far. I'll have to see the rest of the series to see if he goes beyond that. I have a feeling that Twelve is going to change and mellow out before he is done. It's rare that we get a doctor that has some actual character development during one cycle. But all in all, it seems like most people really like Capaldi and don't mind the darker edge.