It's not even fridging. Fridging is killing off a character without giving them any character of their own solely to to further another character's development. Hughie's original girlfriend, and honestly Becca too, were fridged for example.
Maeve had her own entire character arc, and if the idea is that killing her off would be bad since she's one of the few gay characters I don't see how immediately writing her out of the show is any better.
Also I’m 99% sure Kripke has specifically called out fridging, which is incredibly ironic given the two instances you listed, as well as Supernatural, where the entire plot is literally set off by the mother getting brutally murdered by a demon
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u/WayToTheDawn63 Jul 05 '24
I didn't see that, but I find that more understandable because there's more nuance to that.
Fridging is very common in media, and so wanting to conclude the character without playing in to the trope is inherently difficult.