So, just played through both games, came to this reddit and wow, a lot of folks here are all "yeah he is an ass but he is right" about Sylens. Did you pay attention to the games? In the first one, he acually super lucks out to meet us, because he is one who poked Hades, thinking he could handle it, failing to handle it and without our ability to get clearance, would have been unable to stop Hades.

Then the war plot of the second game. Do yall not realize he would have failed? Did you not see how many Specters they had? And he didn't have a Zenith on his side to help sneak in. He would have died alongside Regalla. Even beyond the morality of it, his first instinct go to plan of creating cults to get what he wants is kinda flawed. Also, kinda weird that's how he solves every problem.

Aloy is able to, within minutes, problem solve and plan better than he does. Mostly because she doesn't just, assume she knows everything. Also, she doesn't start every plan with how to shoehorn a cult into it.

You can like Sylens, but objectively he is both incompetent and very immoral. Plus had the attitude of a man child. He is basically every incel who spends too much time on reddit. His one skill set is acquiring knowedge...and I guess setting up cults. He is best utilized as Aloys sidekick, not running things.

Seriously though, if asked to make scrambled eggs, his first step would be setting up a shadowy group of chefs and murdering half the culinary world. And still somehow his eggs would come out tough, and when Aloy makes good quality eggs, he would be smug about how she only could make good eggs because of having to stop his cult of evil chefs.