Alright, some more in depth thoughts about the finale...
Chris played it perfectly coming back from extinction and deserved to win. Not many people give up immunity - especially at the final 4 of all places - and survive to tell about it. Beating Devins in the fire making challenge won it for him. I get Gavin's point of how Chris was at extinction for nearly a month while he was still in the game making moves and decisions and that was a valid point but also how dumb of it was for everyone to not just vote him out immediately when he got back too. You can't have it both ways, you gave him that small window of opportunity by letting him stay in the game and he took full advantage of it.
Devins goes down as one of the best players to not have won. Was pretty obvious the jury would have voted for him had he made it to the final 3. Wouldn't be surprised if they bring him back for another season at some point. I'm assuming Season 40 could be an All Stars season since season 34 was the last one that was all returning players and it's a landmark anniversary for the show too. Would be cool to see no returning winners on the cast and maybe focus on just bringing back only runner-ups. Would be an interesting plot to have entirely people that made it to the end but never won the jury votes. People like Culpepper - both Brad and Monica made it to the final 3 actually, Aubry, Tai, Troyzan, Woo, Amanda Kimmel, Ozzy, Stephenie, Russell Hantz (doubtful he ever plays again) all come to mind then maybe to fill out the rest you pick some players that just missed the final 3 like a Devins, "chaos" Kass, David, etc. I'd have to dig through the seasons more but surely they could put together a pretty good cast of just people that made it very deep into the game but never won. Or maybe just do an "all winners" cast too but my guess out of the pool of 39 winners just how many of them really want to play again.
Really don't know what to think about next season with how they plan to use Rob and Sandra. Seems like that could be a flop but then again maybe since they are calling it Island of the Idols there maybe is a new twist that actually going to their island is an advantage because you can not only talk strategy with 2 former winners but maybe while out there you get a chance to find an immunity idol too? If you think about it if you go there and people know you could come back with an advantage it also could put a target on you too since you are away from camp and the strategy going on while you are gone so maybe that is the twist to it too? Will be interesting to see but the preview didn't reveal much about how that is going to work.