I feel like people are too harsh on Endwalker, though...

[Souljacker]

That's actually the moment I started to hate him.

He is this awesome hero who travels the world alone and he has no idea how to deal with situations like that?

That was just out of character and bad writing.

Sure he must not be perfect and should have flaws. But keep it reasonable.

I thought it humanized him more than anything. He's good at fighting, flying through the air and lancing dragons, why would we think he's a shrewd businessman? Most of the time he's saving the world and getting free meals\rations\training with troops\sleeping barracks\etc.

Would we expect Lord Lolorito to be able to perform the feats that Estinien did? I wouldn't, he's not a fighter, he's a trader. He could spot a bad deal a yalm away. Being good at that doesn't mean it would be bad writing to depict him as bad at something else that might be peripheral to his trading, like say, defending the goods.

I thought it totally made sense that Estinien might not be so good at spotting bad deals.

[WillIrishclover]

I thought it humanized him more than anything. He's good at fighting, flying through the air and lancing dragons, why would we think he's a shrewd businessman? Most of the time he's saving the world and getting free meals\rations\training with troops\sleeping barracks\etc.

Would we expect Lord Lolorito to be able to perform the feats that Estinien did? I wouldn't, he's not a fighter, he's a trader. He could spot a bad deal a yalm away. Being good at that doesn't mean it would be bad writing to depict him as bad at something else that might be peripheral to his trading, like say, defending the goods.

I thought it totally made sense that Estinien might not be so good at spotting bad deals.

I headcanon Estinien as being on the spectrum, his special interests are fighting, collecting spears, etc, he isn't in his element in social situations, (which of course does not mean he can't socialise he of course can), so the whole scene in the market made perfect sense to me. Ask him to track,hunt and kill a monster, he's your man, he's gonna talk to you for days about his specific strategy he has, he's gonna deep dive you into his special interest about the best way to kill a dragon but ask him to haggle at a marketplace thats another matter which he wouldn't be accustomed to *in my headcanon*