(Maybe you misread what I intended about the Said/Duncan conflict? The wording in your comment seems a bit incongruous under the reading where you didn’t, sorry if I’m overthinking this. My point was that the outcome where Duncan mostly left was favorable in its longer term impact, at least so far, due to the norm influence that’s not necessarily even intended by Duncan himself, and so would be hard to argue or even know how to correctly attribute responsibility for. This is the largely illegible thing where Zack made a bit of a headway elucidating some aspects of it. But the impact of Said leaving seems unclear either way, while at the same time any issues seem more like the kind of thing he should’ve been able to fix and that’s therefore easier to attribute to his own decisions...)
(Maybe you misread what I intended about the Said/Duncan conflict? The wording in your comment seems a bit incongruous under the reading where you didn’t, sorry if I’m overthinking this. My point was that the outcome where Duncan mostly left was favorable in its longer term impact, at least so far, due to the norm influence that’s not necessarily even intended by Duncan himself, and so would be hard to argue or even know how to correctly attribute responsibility for. This is the largely illegible thing where Zack made a bit of a headway elucidating some aspects of it. But the impact of Said leaving seems unclear either way, while at the same time any issues seem more like the kind of thing he should’ve been able to fix and that’s therefore easier to attribute to his own decisions...)