He'd rather be told what to think than think for himself.

Edit: Case, for a less snarky response, hear it from Damon himself (or just read any number of posts in this thread):

https://www.backstage.com/interview/how-justin-theroux-and-carrie-coon-rewrote-leftovers-damon-lindelof/

“Tom and I have been very explicit since the beginning that we were not doing a mystery,” Lindelof tells Backstage. “We were much more interested in the emotional ramifications of living in a world where things didn’t get resolved. That was almost in direct response to the way that ‘Lost’ ended. The problem of answering mysteries is there’s always some level of dissatisfaction and unhappiness—because it’s never as exciting as the mystery itself. ‘The Leftovers’ openly embraced that idea.”