Agreed, but the being more proactive bit does kind of ignore a few things. For one, while it's been months for us, it's only been a week since his debut in story time, so when you frame it like that, taking a few days in between major battles to deal with build up, family drama, and Aisha/Taylor related issues, he's really not being that passive. As far as sending out recon drones or body guard robots, he said a while back that he was worried about people, especially Bakuda/Leet and March, getting a hold of his tech, so he stuck to more passive observation and defense in the form of those watches. Plus, keep in mind Joe's personality. his inner self, as seen in Trauma, is inclined to just hole up and get away from problems if he has the slightest choice in the matter. So him not hunting down March over the course of the last 3 days in story makes a lot more sense in context.