Your wrong, he does not know what direction the story will take. He might have an ideal, but he listens to his patreon supporters. That's why characters getting introduced seemingly out of the blue that seem to be important but never to return. That's why certain events will take up a hole chapter a seem completely out of place from where the last chapter ended. He might on some of his shorter series but definitely not with TA. Like her hooking up with a random janitor or a random threesome. Or with Dan having seeing or hearing certain things never to follow up on them. Or Dan beating up Lester but now can't or won't lift a finger toward him. It's seems like Lester's computer skill are a McGuffin, they just make the story go in whatever direction he wants to change mid-chapter. There are a lot of better authors, but for some reason TA has a bunch of people backing it. It's kinda like Disney and Star wars, you know the new series or the next movie is gonna be shit but you still torture yourself and pay to watch it anyway.