He deserved it in my opinion. Still a bit selfish, but I guess It seemed realistic. Actually, I am disagreeing with myself in the final line here... I don't know tbh. I do agree with him overall, but seemed Selfish. Like he abandoned Sam and Bucky. I think they needed something to pass the mantle, and this was the Big Shot i guess

He's human. He has human emotions. He gave so much of himself to help the world, over and over and over again. And in the end, he just wanted to be happy. I do not blame him at all for his decision.

I do not like his decision very much. He said he’d be with Bucky until the end of the line, but made the decision not to. Not to mention Peggy had a whole life and new love interest in marvel’s Agent Carter that Steve interfered with.

^ Steve had new love interest in her niece as well.

Time... When it gets messed up, it gets messed up badly. 😅😅

What if Steve invited Bucky to come back with him but Bucky refused the offer? Also what if Steve still didn’t want to leave him but left at Bucky’s urging?

Also as much as it broke my heart to see him go I understand why Steve did what he did. You do the job long enough your dreams are nothing but settling down and retiring. It’s okay for a hero to want something for himself, it’s what makes them a regular human being

Bucky: Steve, I want you to forgo the chance at being with the love of your life just to keep me and Sam company until we are too old to do this anymore.

Steve: No, I don't think I will.

Except for the part where he goes directly against the “love of his life”s advice to move on from Winter Soldier.

I don't think it was selfish on his part. After all the sacrifices he made, he deserved a life to rest and be with the love of his life. I think he did try his best to move on, but there are just some things you can't ever completely let go, which for him was Peggy. I am a big believer that he was always Peggy's husband and father to her kids. I agree with the writers because a.) they have written all of his story from the beginning while the directors are the ones mainly responsible for putting it on the screen. The writers are the authors of his story. They also created Agent Carter so I think their opinions mean more than the directors, plus the directors are always contradicting themselves. They don't even have all the answers to the movies and have been stumped multiple times by fan questions. One perfect example was one question a fan asked about Bucky and Zola from Winter Soldier and they could not answer it.

So if we go with that he was in the prime timeline the whole time, even if he could have done something about Hydra, time would have corrected itself. Remember Tony's endgame line, "when you mess with time, it tends to mess back." Also, the TVA would have put a stop to it as well to preserve the "sacred" timeline if things did not go as planned. If you believe he is an alternate universe, then he did help out when he needed to as that is what the directors have stated.

With his decision regarding Bucky and Sam, Bucky knew all his plans and did not stop him nor argue with him and agreed that Steve should be happy. Sam also said he was happy with him when he found out. Bucky and Sam will be just fine, plus how do we know Steve is not there now. Yes, they say he is gone, but where is he? They are being very ambiguous about his fate.