Uh, I'm not enthusiastic about the Big Zero, but that's a bad rap on the Big Zero.
When it came to setting the "expectation bar too high," that was the primitives' own fault, believing the Big Zero was the Second Coming.
Of course, the Big Zero took advantage of it, but still, it was expectations created by the primitives.
Remember, one of the primary characteristics of the primitives is their ability to delude themselves.