of course it would have, how many times had something gone wrong and jake been forced to make a tough field decision that saved their butts, oodles of times
throw it back to the cowards argument, this was his plan, and it was not a nice plan, it was screwing over alot of people(doubleday, taxxons, chee sorta, auxiliaries) and jake needed to own up to all of that, he made alot of promises and even if he didnt think he was going to keep them, heading out to his death with all of that unfinished would be cowardly, him opting out of his obligations just for some grudge with his brothers yeerk is cowardly
just another perspective on it