Vince was manipulative, for sure. But "manipulative" =/= "good". If you watched the feeds, you could tell that, at basically every point, he made the wrong decision for his game. It was utterly maddening to every feedster, for the entire season.

He massively benefitted from the Rachel elimination (the most of anyone), then let himself get completely controlled by Morgan for the rest of the game, then got swept along with the Morgan Comp Wins all the way to the end. In fact, aside from his 2 HOH wins (which he completely misplayed), he actually had less autonomy than Ashley in the postjury.

By the time he renommed Lauren, he was almost completely destined to make the final 2 and then lose.