You could argue that the only games they were predicted to win (in stage 3) were WSH and CDHx2 (which they obviously failed at) the rest you'd expect a loss.

Taimou may or may not have helped them win those two Chengdu games, and whether they chose to rotate him in at any point previously probably doesn't change the outcome unless he'd a God Tier Brig. Could they have played him more? Of course. Would he have been the savior you're making him out to be? Unlikely.

Now, did they drop the ball? You know what, looking at their overall record, I'd say probably not, unless your galaxy brain predicted that they'd be mid table after 3 stages, let alone having been top 8 after 2.

Settle down kiddo, the bandwagon is full and you won't fit in it.

We don't know and probably will never know as to why they subbed out Taimou.

It could have been taimou himself saying to sub him out cause maybe he wasn't feeling it anymore after losing on Hollywood or they had a set strat they practiced with akm for Gibraltar.

Let's take a moment and think before we go asking for people to be fired.