You obviously want to make an issue out of this for some reason. The point is, something else means I don’t know why he seems to react to contact more now than my impressions of how he reacted to contact previously. Maybe he reacts the same, it just seems different to me.
I can’t stand when people take what’s written and then assume something else beyond what was actually written. That’s on YOU. If I wanted to say that Trace is afraid or not interested in competing or whatever else, I would have said so. I simply said he seems to be finding the ground a lot more now than my perception of his play previously. You are the one who extended this to something much different. That’s on you.