His hubris was his downfall, not his lack of competence. He was a high school teacher that managed to outplay the cartel AND the DEA while building a drug empire with no previous criminal experience. Gotta be an all around genius to survive as long as he did.
if breaking bad taught me anything it's that you shouldn't trust your chemistry teacher
idk the show was pretty up front that Walt was good at the chemistry thing
Good at chemistry, bad at everything else except killing
He was also good at having cancer
except he stopped having cancer so he's bad at that too.
His hubris was his downfall, not his lack of competence. He was a high school teacher that managed to outplay the cartel AND the DEA while building a drug empire with no previous criminal experience. Gotta be an all around genius to survive as long as he did.