not sure how popular of a take this is nowadays but to me jayce talis is a character defined by his willingness to point out how piltover failed catastrophically in every way it could possibly fail and realizing that knowing the truth changes nothing + they feed on well meaning ppl exactly like him
u can really tell a lot of ppl watched arcane with the brain turned off bc to this day theres audience members who swear viktor was "defeated" by "ekko throwing a thing at his head" like ekko isnt literally assimilated during that scene and the only thing that works is jayce convincing him to quit