Micah didn't really start getting in Dutch's ear until after the Guarma chapter, so it still would've all turned out bad without him there. Dutch was already leading them down a bad path before then. His basic philosophy wasn't that people should be free and civilzation was ruining everything, it was that Dutch should be free, and everyone should just follow him.
Wasn't Blackwater Micah's plan though? I think the gang really started going downhill after blackwater, it's collapse would've inevitable but slower without Micah to egg on Dutch at every turn
Yeah. I'm convinced that Micah was spilling the beans long before Guarma. Every plan of Dutch's that went wrong just so happened because somebody somehow figured out what they were up to.
That's not to say Dutch was good at planning though. Usually, Hosea was the guy making the plans, and most of the plans that went wrong, Hosea wasn't around for. ---