I’m not claiming that you had Eli as some sort of “strong town, would defend with my life”.
You did state that you had towny feeling about them.
Which is why it’s baffling that you voted them the way you did, without as much as a passing comment as to what changed your heart, or how you considered alternatives, or… anything really.
There’s just following the cfd that occured, which was started by the villager that you apparently followed unconditionally… Which you never had a read on, or even mentioned them previously to that point.
You just keep repeating “But I didn’t have time, so my read on Eli actually was nothing and doesn’t matter at all”, which is just bizarre at best.