Having finished the series, I feel like we did some exploration of Carmy's compulsion, but somehow not enough, despite it being central to the overall narrative.
I came out of it feeling like the real problem was that he wanted to be an artist with food, but the model he had for a career was that he should be in control of the entire operation, and he was terrible at that.
And it was great to see it sorted out that Sydney was much better at working with people and encouraging teamwork, but I still felt like that didn't really point out the problem that there's no particular relationship between technical and artistic mastery, and leadership.
They set up a bit for his transition to architecture, but not that much. I had the impression you'd need to at least be working on a graduate degree to get an internship. And my impression is that architecture is as hierarchical as professional cooking, maybe more so, so I'm not sure how that helps him.
