Yup. What you said. That makes total sense. He's so GOOD at everything and the whole time he's all adorably surprised and confused by that. Like, he pulls the Apollo card because he can and because it works but the whole time he's thinking, "why are all these people doing what I say?"

Similar to the question at LAD today. Why did he stay in the military? Cuz he turned out to be so damned GOOD at it! So he probably thought, 'well, I guess I should just keep doing this then.' But oh Leland, you'd be good at anything you tried!