Maybe Lloyd just shouldn't be a master.
He's clearly not very good at it. He's been trying it since season 5, and his first real students both take FOREVER to make any progress. Sora takes a whole season to unlock her powers, but apparently isn't taught spinjitzu in any of that time- the literal first thing we see taught to any of our characters in the original show. Arin somehow makes backwards progress with Lloyd, and then after doing like three poses with his friend seems to get it instantly.
Like... seems like he's just not very good at teaching. Maybe he should hand the position over to Kai, he's got a natural knack for it, a lot more experience, and a much higher success rate as far as I'm concerned. Master Kai for the win.
Yep... I think it's pretty intentional.
I mean yeah they don't really show Lloyd's mistakes outright, but I think the... Vibes of him in DR generally do explain why he doesn't work as a teacher pretty well.
The way he always tries to mimic Wu (and even declares to want to do everything his way), resulting in a... kinda paralel situation between Arin and Morro.
Lloyd acting kinda disorganized, putting off personally important issues of the team for the world saving mission... To me it seemed like not at all subtle hinting that Lloyd's issues with teaching stem from 3 things:
-Lack of experience (DRS1... Very obvious)
-Generational trauma (Lloyd's first "there's something I haven't told you" moment, the Morro-Arin paralels)
And the most important of all I think:
-Being the chosen one
This isn't even really hinted at, but it's one of the few logical explanations for the... Everything else, all that weird messing up.
The way Lloyd became a ninja is pretty much as unhealthy as it gets. Rushed, not personalized enough training, from multiple people with various levels of experience, starting from roughly age 10?. He learned spinjitzu in like... 2 weeks, and there's no way that the very life threatening situation (in a barrel, as such blind, fighting an adult who wants to kill him), as well as his heritage didn't have a hand in it.
He's fumbling because he witnessed very little of the early training of his teammates, and he can't use the experiences of his own when teaching because he doesn't want to put Arin and Sora in that kind of danger. He's basing the training they get on gut feeling and retellings and fuzzy childhood memories.
Which is, when paired with Lloyd's frankly insane sense of duty, lack of life outside the gi (which make him willing to sacrifice a lot for "the mission"), and the zero teaching experience, are a recipe for disaster when they meet a kid like Arin, who has high expectations of his idol, and obviously has a lost family he understandably puts before world saving...
And how his way of doing things kinda works out for Sora proves this. Sora has no civilian life to return to, and has always wanted to make the world a better place. She has that same sense of duty. Everyone she loves and would put before "the mission" is also in said mission... (She and Lloyd also both have a very similar, heavy self doubt).
(I actually really hope that bringing Morro back serves to highlight this. To remind Lloyd of the worst case scenario that can transpire from failing a student like that, and to show Arin that just cause Lloyd's shit at teaching doesn't mean he's a bad guy, he's just a well meaning idiot with a fucked up life)
