While I do enjoy a bit of theorycrafting, I don't think the inclusion of NAL changed too much. Josh's decline is a sad and terrible decline, starting all the way back at when he got kicked out of Job Corps if you ask me. It's a staircase the BOY fell down:
- Kicked out of Job Corps
- Fired from Wendy's
- Swatted + Realized he could make more money doing nothing
- Pandemic
- Evicted(1st time)
- Duster
- Hurricane Jessica
- Eviction(slight return)
- Ozzy's death
Each event was a step down from the last, underlined by his tooth decay. I've said it before, it wasn't a matter of if, but when. The only difference is that the second eviction meant he trusted everyone even less, never mind that he was even further away from all of his Homeboys.