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Hold on a second, I think you're misunderstanding something here.TBF one of my issues with Kamachi's writing is that characters can be hypercompetent mega geniuses that can figure out the solution to a problem less than a second or overly emotionally unstable idiots depending on whether the plot needs them too. This isn't limited to the science side either.
They are geniuses capable of <calculating> the necessary factors to execute their powers (or in the case of Uiharu, her hacking skills), but emotional control isn't necessarily tied to IQ even in the real world.
They do say that the line between a genius and in idiot is thin, and that's how the ability users tend to operate - they're still largely just kids and tweens with super powers. It doesn't matter how much computational power they have in their brains, they're still hormonal teenagers that lack emotional control, with Mikoto being regarded as the only sane Level 5, yet she's prone to picking up fights and has quite the disregard for authority.
Many geniuses in the real world have taken very emotional and retarded actions, such as Van Gogh having been theorized to cut off his own ear because he couldn't get it right in his self portrait, Albert Einstein getting his hair messy and sticking his tongue out to paparazzi because he thought throwing a tantrum in front of the cameras would make the journalists go away, and we have all the musicians that ruined their careers and lives because they got involved with drugs despite knowing what they do to a person (some even claimed they couldn't write if they weren't high).
A character being a genius does not mean they should necessarily have control of their emotions. That is not how things operate in the real world, and when it comes to fiction, a story can be more interesting when characters act based on their emotions rather than logic. Point in case, Baba being a robotics and engineering genius letting his own ego make him believe he's above the most powerful ability users, only to panic and commit mistake after mistake whenever he realizes he miscalculated his opponent's human nature.