See I only just recently listened to kevin and abi and initially i was like ! that is WILD that evil conner was able to figure out this entire chain of events, like h o w .
and then I remembered that our conner canonically figured out the reincarnation cycle, realized that the reincarnated adrien would be able to hear lee's frequency, had close ties to Arcadia corp in its golden age, raised the very first true AI, and reconfigured the old vp portal tech.
But it's more than that??? Conner got extremely close to stopping the whole project Elysium scheme in its tracks! He didn't do that by confronting or outsmarting the vps head on, but by pitting them against something bigger and badder than they were: the city council's expenditure budget!!! He knows how to outsource! He can delegate!!
All that being said, perhaps the best evidence that Conner is intelligent is that he left Arcadia corp
