I'm rewatching for, gosh, probably the tenth or so time and I'm always struck by how incompetent Josh is in the last arc as the campaign manager for the Santos campaign. In previous seasons, even the one immediately before this, Josh is shown to be a brilliant political mind that listens to the guy in charge and makes the politics and optics work around them.

But literally all that gets tossed in the garbage with the Santos campaign. He makes wrong call after wrong call and Santos does well despite Josh. Even after the primaries, Josh isn't shown to be particularly smart or talented, just stressed, and the win comes down to luck.

I narratively understand why they wanted to do this - by showing Santos is right and Josh is wrong, it establishes Santos as a great political mind that deserves the presidency. But it does so at the cost of destroying Josh's character up to that point. This isn't the guy who worked for and learned from Leo for eight years.

There's a lot of "pod people" feelings in the Wells seasons, but I think Josh got it worst. He went from a multifaceted character to one that was only about stress and being a jerk and that's it.