I care much more about the #1 YE-ranking than the WTF itself - a tourney I just don't care for or regard as more than an indoor M-1000, with a weird format. Looking back at 2016, and what has transpired with Murray since, I do feel good for him, although I've never rooted for him much as a player. But he's a good guy, who had a huge second half of 2016, which this tourney ratified, and he kind of "deserved" to have some time at #1.
(Still, it was tough at the time, and yeah, I give Zverev some credit. He has a lot of game when on, which he was. The RR format didn't do Novak any favors there, as it's hard to soundly defeat another player, and then come back four (?) days later and try to do it again.)