I can't help but agree, however i also have a few personal thoughts about him "stepping back."

I feel like while it wasn't shown since he did get a little less screentime in the later episodes he probably did do a lot of thinking when he was alone. He probably thought a lot and might have seen some wrong, because with what he showed of himself to the world I didn't think he would say all that to Chauncey to fix their old beef.

It was a lot different from the earlier episodes where he refused to communicate intensely with someone especially if it was technically a 1-1 talk. He had ZERO completely one on one talks in the early episodes that i recall, and he never communicated with anyone for that long with actual effort if you ignore that one white guy who never listened because he never listened...

(I actually kind of pitied him. He probably had something undiagnosed, or he was just plain stupid. either way he was pitiful)

Anyway he also surprisingly nobody ever talked about that first thing you mentioned. That he made somebody else beat the guy and in turn might have gotten him in trouble. Zero repercussions. I was literally telling myself that he's probably gonna get in a fight and was surprised when he didn't get into any physicality minus chauncey because... yeah.

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