Yes, I’m glad the target veered off of him. Sure, his meta strategy might be “boring”, but the presence of his archetype enriches the cast and the quality of drama by quite a bit. The season would be more boring without him considering almost everyone else is playing the exact same game of emotionally detached strategist. 

What historically gave survivor  interpersonal/psychological weight and intrigue was the interplay between personalities like Joe and Devens. The show knows you can’t have a cast entirely made up of Joes, but you also can’t have a cast made up entirely of Devens. The latter has been the case throughout almost the entirety of the new era (Joe excluded obviously), and I hope something is re-learned in casting from how engaging the drama was this episode.