Same applies in sports especially in baseball with the over use of radar gun readings...some scouts rely far too much on radar gun readings rather than actual performance. They ignore performance and other factors. It is laziness and arrogance.....it is the equivalent of staring at models but not actually "finding" more good pitchers.
The old school mets back in the day often mentioned the bolded. They were far more reliant on pattern recognition than the models. Same applies to scouting in sports, far too many scouts rely on projection than what a player is.
Two factors work in his favor:
1) He doesn't over analysis things.
2) He doesn't live in SNE which means he doesn't go searching for an outcome that he wants.
You're the one that has expressed frustration with the winter. I had very low expectations for the winter....no frustration at my end. I long ago accepted/knew that it wasn't going to be all that good of a winter.
The "heat" during the first part of November was a harbinger of things to come... but the "heat" was downplayed by some individuals because it did not fit their narrative for winter 22-23....it has been a non winter.
F- grade for the winter
Blizzard of 78 I was in college....classes got dismissed at 1 PM....next 4 days classes were cancelled. That was the only time classes were cancelled during my college years all 17 of them......as one prof said(paraphrasing) "we are preparing you for the workforce and that includes driving to work in snowstorms"....