it was because his infuriating play gave me flashbacks to botf i.i mostly
his EoD was decent
after that its mostly been that he’s putting forth a serious effort to engaging, progressions, solving, and reevaluating
and i can get in his head and kind of understand it even if he uses methods that are alien to me
tbh i dropped him in my readlist after reading your push on him but he’s back up there now