And not being as experienced and skilled from day one as he is now was an even worse move! He had to rework some parts later.
But actually Ocean answered this a few times.
So you think he's not being completely honest here? Because if burnout is the issue, then it's not so obvious that dropping WIAB will significantly speed up the development of the SG. Instead of working on WIAB, he probably will stare at the screen, or worse, will play Baldurs Gate 3 to cooldown the burnout
Dunno about Ocean, but when I was working on my diploma project, I played HMM3 all the time. I fought burnout the best I could!
BTW, we shouldn't talk about dropping WIAB so loud, these guys from the WIAB thread are quite nervous about that