Most agents/managers won't talk to you if you don't have an MFA, so ol' 1.7 would normally have no chance. He only got an agent because of his disingenuous abortion tweet that got him 80k followers or whatever, which may be the most infuriating part of all of this. He was handed exactly what he wanted, based on a fluke and the perception of Twitter having more social importance than it really does, then failed so spectacularly just by being an awful person that Tor said, "you know, don't bother with that third book, we're good here."
Think how disappointed they were. "This guy's a white man, sure, but he's got 80k Twitter followers where he says all the good boy things, that's got to mean at least 8k in sales, give him a shot."