My one major pet peeve with Project Hail Mary as a story is that Stratt allowed it to even get to the Ryland Grace contingency stage in the first place.
Like yeah he was the secret alternate, but he was still 100% Not The Best Person For The Job. Like both because he had to be chased down and put on literal amnesia drugs so he wouldn't freak out once he got into space and because he's not particularly well trained as an astronaut.
Like Dubois and Shapiro were the first and second best people for the job… and Stratt, you let them fuck??? Like, they weren't subtle about it. You knew this was happening. Why were they even on the same aircraft carrier?
Like remember this is supposedly set in a version of our reality. Which means that in a reality where the two people who know the secret recipe to Coca Cola supposedly aren't allowed to travel on the same plane, the two people who are most vital for our entire planet's survival are being allowed to fuck around (figuratively and literally) on an aircraft carrier filled with highly dangerous explosives.
What. The. Fuck.
