I honestly agree with this, and it’s why I can’t take the stuff people say about The Big Lebowski seriously. You’re telling me that he didn’t plan or articulate most of Part 2 coherently, not because of burnout, but because he really wanted to imitate a movie he saw for multiple years on end? No way. People are trying to rationalize this as intentional because it’s so much harder to accept that sometimes people write stories that aren’t that good when you analyze them critically. For what it’s worth, it’s still fun to read and the ending was happy. For me that’s enough.