I think if all he’d said was “My aim was just to introduce the two of them, and let them have a conversation and take it from there”, I’d have found that a satisfactory answer. It’s also not something I considered to need justification in the first place, although I hadn’t looked into it very much. I’m inferring from the fact that Will gave a full paragraph explanation of why this seemed high EV indicates that he thinks that reasoning is important.
I think if all he’d said was “My aim was just to introduce the two of them, and let them have a conversation and take it from there”, I’d have found that a satisfactory answer. It’s also not something I considered to need justification in the first place, although I hadn’t looked into it very much. I’m inferring from the fact that Will gave a full paragraph explanation of why this seemed high EV indicates that he thinks that reasoning is important.