I’m sorry, but is Toji ACTUALLY stupid?

I’m re-reading this fight right, and as i’m finishing it up, i realize that toji accidentally led to his own death because had he had the ISOH in his hand when purple came he could have deactivated it on contact, but then i kept thinking, and im realizing this dude had the absolute WORST plan ever.

ISOH is the ONLY defense and offense toji has against gojo, and his first reaction upon learning gojo can TELEPORT and fire exploding projectiles is to THROW IT AWAY. WHY? He’s talking like “aha, i can react and block red if i get the timing right” but HOW are you ever gonna “get the timing right” if the blade is 200 FEET AWAY FROM YOU? if gojo just idk teleported right to him this scene and wrapped his legs around toji and hit him with red like he did sukuna, he has NO way around this, he just gets hit, because he can’t “get the timing right” of the blade that he flung across the fucking planet. Not to mention, what if gojo just used blue and grabbed the chain and broke it with his hand or broke it with red??? What then? Toji says that now that he has extended range he can block blue from afar but HOW? If toji suddenly gets YANKED upwards to gojo, how does his little chain do anything? the moment he can’t pull or manipulate the chain because he’s being thrown across the sky it’s gonna slam into smth and just stop moving.

WHY would he practically give gojo his only way to beat him? am i missing something? because like, if gojo rushes him or fires smth at him, he clearly cannot block it in time, i don’t care what toji says he’s not blocking it, but if he HAD the spear he could have survived if he managed to block purple properly. This dude heard gojo was high and decided “thank god! no need to think critically anymore” and hurled his win con away. This actually might be the worst plan ever, any movement he wants to do or make with the chain will happen like 5 seconds later so even if he hypothetically reacted to gojo rushing him and tried to whip the blade he’d have to wait for the movement to travel all the way up the blade for it to work. I cannot for the life of me imagine what he was doing here.

EVEN in this picture, if gojo moved out of the way, now what? that blade is flying where? in order to cancel out the momentum you’d have to whip it around smth but oh wait that’s super hard to do now because it’s super far away and any movement you make to the chain won’t happen for awhile, so does it just slam into the ground or fall?

No wonder Toji started talking about Megumi after this, he was hit with such a massive reality check that he started remembering his SON, crazy work, i feel bad for maki being equal to him.