I perfectly know that the question cannot have a definite answer and we can only theorise, but your post didn't even try to answer to it and then you started passively-aggressively attacking anyone who pointed that out just like someone whose frontal lobe hasn't fully developed yet

But yours is not a response to his question

I loved it as a teenager, i'm re-reading the whole series, starting from the robots, and i'm really not enjoying it as much. The characters are pretty bi-dimensional and the few female characters are really badly written, sometimes even downright creepily (he later blamed it on having written it as a 20something virgin), the writing is a bit dull and the plots too often rely on deus ex machina or some plot armor. Probably some today wouldn't be published (one revolvs around a mistery of a "lemonade death" that's pretty ridiculous), but for when they were written they were absolutely revolutionary, some of the concepts introduced really amazing and they have influenced most of the scifi that followed.

I think you 'll love The name of the wind, and end up crushed because we'll probably never see the last chapter of the series.

I read Enders Game after Harry Potter and I was amazed that no one mentions how many things JKR took straight from it. It's basically HP in space with better writing.