Agreed. I mean if Rapunzel was a prize it was to Mother Gothel, not Flynn who was more interested in what he stole but later came to like her as a person.

Commentators who'd rather have had Rapunzel cut off her own hair are, I think, missing an important point--that was Flynn's way of demonstrating definitively that--William Butler Yeats to the contrary--he loved her for herself alone and not for her yellow hair.