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The votes all made perfect sense - the problem was that they were too predictable.

Marcus - Bob stuck with him when he was voted out, and unlike most of the rest of the Onions, he actually really got along with Bob. He certainly wasn't going to vote for Susie, who turned on him, the Kota god. Sugar basically told him she didn't want his vote.

Charlie - His questions showed his vote was never in doubt - he was going to vote for his ally no matter what.

Randy - He had the most difficult choice of the Onions because he really wanted to shove Bob's fake idol routine in his face. He clearly respected Sugar's game above those of the other two, but he didn't respect her as a person (and of course, her response negated any thoughts of overlooking that). He got a semi-apology out of Bob for the fake idol, allowing him to justify voting for him over Susie, who he just didn't like or respect.

Corinne - She was never going to vote for Susie or Sugar over Bob even if she had to hold her nose a bit to do so. What was her voting comment? Something like "Great job surviving Africa! I just don't know how you survive in real life."

Crystal - This was probably the vote most up for grabs, but it seems Sugar had burned too many bridges to wheedle a pity vote. I think she sympathized with Ken's arguments about Bob, and that left Susie. The fact that Randy seemed to entertain a vote for Susie probably meant that was the only shot for someone other than Bob to win.

Ken - Clearly, he wanted Bob to lose (though while he had a point about Bob's broken promise, it was a losing argument that had already been made). Sugar betrayed him and was apparently not even trying to win. That again left Susie as his only hope of defeating Bob.

Matty - We weren't shown anything along these lines, but I imagine Matty was pissed at Sugar for getting hung out to dry like that, including her giving Bob cover to go practice ahead of time. He had been basically loosely allied with Susie all game so just saw her as the logical person to vote for. He probably disliked that Bob was even in the finals at the time of the vote.

Matty's actually a pretty huge hypocrite, making a big deal to Ken about how he wouldn't blindside him (after spending much of the previous episode whining about being voted for), and then turning around and doing it anyway. It isn't like Ken had a play otherwise. Actually, Matty's best play was to vote Sugar out at F5 with Ken and Susie, but when you hitch your game to someone else's, you leave yourself at their mercy. He couldn't see that a meritocracy wouldn't favor him at the end.

I see some are claiming the Kotas were the good guys all along. Sorry, nope! Bob was the good guy all along, but we were shown from the beginning that he was just being used by the rest of his tribe. The Kota as a tribe were competent and ruthlessly efficient, but they were never the good guys. Whatever their role otherwise in the season, Ken and Crystal were heroes at the time they brought down Marcus.

Crystal was presented as a character. The failure at challenges was just a running gag - not negative or positive - especially once she started laughing along with the joke. The occasional surliness and combativeness was her flaw that eventually proved her downfall, but her edit still received careful attention all season, which is how she was able to swing from obstacle to good guy and back again. That's the grey area where winners are usually found (but not this time apparently).

Ken was even less negative early on, and the resurrection of Fang actually was portrayed as his coming of age. He was the protagonist for a short period of time. But the edit continued to show him consumed by his own arrogance and burned at the end (but the end was such a whimper that he doesn't even make a good villain).

Tones flowed from Sugar's edit. Early on, she was working with Ace, but we were shown that Ace was merely using her. That put Ace in a bad light right from the start and excused her turning on him, especially when it was to save at that time quasi-underdogs Crystal and Ken. Following Ace's departure, the remaining Fang bonded, which held until F6 while they whittled out the "evil" Onions. During this period, all the Fang were good guys.

But with Corinne leaving, the story needed a last act villain, so Ken was promoted to the role. In the penultimate episode, Sugar defeats him by voting out Crystal. As a result, the whole finale felt anti-climactic. There's no tension. Ken doesn't really put up much of a fight at F5, poor deluded Susie saves herself only by winning immunity, and poor deluded Matty never sees his doom coming. With the vote a foregone conclusion, the only competition at the final TC is who can zing Sugar the hardest. And Bob ends up looking worse in the finale than he did all season long. (He really was a rather poor sport after Susie's victory before Sugar decided to save him.) It makes for a clunky ending.