>>58355674In terms of writing rather than actual intelligence of the person, yes definitely.
The most baffling part is how easy it would be to fix him. It's not even that "man wants to prevent crisis right now on his own even though it won't be a problem for 1000 years" is a terrible premise by itself, it's just the circumstances around it and the person who does this that made it so ridiculous.
Rose is depicted as calm and collected, just kinda chill and friendly. Sometimes he seems kind of forgetful, or maybe even careless. These traits are literally the polar opposite of someone you'd expect to do what he did.
All they needed to do was to make Rose incredibly impatient, or very pressing to see actions ASAP. He could've been an egomaniac who hates slackers and wants everything to be done when he says it should be done. You literally don't need to change the story to at least mostly fix it, you just need to change Rose's personality.
Man SwSh's story is so fucking dogshit. Honestly incredible that they managed to deliver an actually good story in SV after that disaster. I wouldn't have thought it was possible.
