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The problem is it's not AT ALL the Bean that we see in Ender's Game. You can tell because his personality changes drastically when he has conversations with Ender (since those were already canon). The book tries to excuse it as him "feeling nervous around Ender", but that's incredibly weak. Similarly, the only reason all his manipulations of Ender (and his backseat ro have to be so subtle and behind-the-scenes is to be compatible with the original narrative; there's no good in-universe explanation.
Orson Scott Card just thought up a neat new OC and shoehorned him into the original story, and it shows. And I hate how completely it invalidates Ender's choices. But hey, that new character does come into his own in the sequels, at least, when he's not undermining a previously-written story.
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