User blog comment:Godisme/Everything but the Rain/@comment-25466298-20121018180335/@comment-893506-20121018182932

Just fans of Byakuya in general. Many people are having trouble accepting that some of their favorite characters might die in this arc, and ever since we had Byakuya's death listed, it caused many people to try to revert the change. Byakuya may have survived that initially, but he's doomed. He even knows this, so there's really no point in arguing against this.

And if Hitsugaya died, we'd probably get the same reaction.