The war was not over.
The Germans didn’t surrender until the second week in May. And had Dresden and other transportation hubs not been totaled so completely the Nazis might have been able to hold out another month or so.
I have coffee five mornings a week with a bunch of Veterans at the VFW hall. We have two guys who fought in that war and who stayed in through Vietnam. One just turned 94 and the other is 96.
To you, more weeks or months of fighting is some esoteric point. These guys lived it.
God yes, that’s true. Anyone who’s been in a war will tell you that “only” another two or three weeks is an eternity.