Just worse in regards to intent, you're right that it's probably not indicative of how bad the outcomes are going to be.
Mathematically speaking, random actions can't be worse than actively bad actions.
Persistently bad behavior can be anticipated and accounted for, random actions cannot. Importer have as much issue with the tariffs as they have with the unpredictability of those tariffs.
In theory, you try to limit the influence of a persistently bad actor, but it seems the U.S. didn't get the memo.
That is a bizarre claim. Mathematics doesn't even enter into it.
Why would it be worse?
If he knows, at least he has a plan, whether that plan is good or bad.
If he doesn’t know at all, then literally even more random shit can occur than what’s already happening.