Have I ever told you how much I hate the 'Derek is a misunderstood genius' narrative in the game? The dude does some of the dumbest things imaginable for 90% of the novel, but somehow the game still wants you to entertain the idea that he is very smart, he just 'doesn't apply himself' beacuse he is lazy, or too distracted by Maya's problems(yeah, right, outside of last ep he never seems too pressed about that either)
Thats not how storytelling works, if you constantly portray him as drooling moron, having tertiary characters tell you he is actually smart means squat.