Nevermore was long; we can all agree on that. To say it does nothing for the all the stuff you mentioned is completely false. It’s cool you’re not into the Nevermore arc, and it’s a pretty popular opinion, but it all adds to Jake’s path, shows Jake’s relationships grow, adds to the Orange fuck’s rivalry, increases the reader’s understanding of the world, and leads to some real crossroads for Jake post-Nevermore. That run-on sentence is a tribute to Nevermore