It's sad in it's own way that Noel can't not be a POS because if he does, he'll loose the main support he needs to reach his end goal. There have been many times where I feel Noel has contemplated not truly throwing people under the bus but because he has needed every scrap he has to keep being the snake that he's been and now this chapter only further illustrates the self made hole he's in, he can't get out nor can he seemingly break free as of rn.
Of course he's not settling for this rn, but the way he's pressured stuns him and shows that bit of humility if people didn't know he still had at this point.