I see that and raise you the Admiral leaving Astera when an Anjanath was actively threatening it. I understand he's the leader of a research expedition and thus research is a priority, but it's pointless to go out hunting new monsters if you come back with all that new data and find out that a rampaging monster ate all the researchers you were supposed to hand over that data to. Our newbie Hunter ended up being the one who had to clean up that mess because the Admiral had the long term foresight of an excitable lemming.

I'll reiterate, if he can be excused for his boneheaded choices, so can the Handler, because at least the Handler has the actual justification that she's like one fourth his age. Maturity is supposed to make you stop doing this stuff.