My memory from the side-stuff around issue 22 is that the Amir Jason & Summer interacted with was the Sepiaverse Amir, and this universe’s Amir was lost during the DC incident.
One of my objectives in introducing the Mirrors was for Alycia to be able to interact with Amir and acknowledge the history they must have had. As for Rusty, I think that Alycia was really comparing herself with the other “kids”, and the “adults” were on another tier altogether, and may be giving Rusty a pass because of his own staggering competence in his particular field.
Three-quarters of Pyrrus is made up of people who thought the worst of Achilles Chin. In this case there’s another reason, which we’ll learn in the next issue.
This is also why writing Pyrrhus is always a challenge - even the Mirrors, who are supposedly single-personality extracts, have some of the entire gestalt in them, and I’ve done my best to have that come through. Everyone who interacted with a Mirror noted they were “off” somehow, someone’s idea of that person rather than the real thing.