I mean he was strong enough in both bad ends to achieve his goals on his own, in both, even the first way early it seemed to know what he was after and catch on fairly quickly, and strong enough.
The Eye just had the worst luck imaginable.
You know it's kinda comedic if you think about it. You have a being that is ancient, that prolly had to lay dormant for thousands and thousands of years for a suitable vessel to be born and ascend to a superhuman, and TWICE once it could finaly be reborn it had the misfortune of spawning near the only few individuals that could actualy kill it immediately.
It's downright hilarious the bad luck the Eye had