Just my two cents: Not a big fan of Ross' character portrayal in Brave New World.

I can see your point but I feel it was more a casualty of the story they were telling than the character itself. The meds he was taking left him susceptible to Sterns' control + his main priority of trying to "treat" his illness and not die. Plus even in the comics Ross had a history of being stubborn as shit and out to get his target/goal by any means necessary and that has left him with huge blind spots to blatant manipulation tactics.

To be fair, Ross was in shock from what he learned and was trying to do damage control.