[Antoninus]

You’ve either angered Caesar or you were considered incompetent or something else entirely.

Not exactly. If you've angered Caesar, you get no post. You're lucky to survive with your life and property intact.

Incompetence is possible. However, if you were considered incompetent, it was much more likely that you would get no post at all. All such posts contained the possibility for official assigned to become quite wealthy skimming the top off of tribute collection. A post like Judea, where the people were notoriously rebellious and where the governor had to deal with local client kings who were often friends of Caesar, required someone with a certain amount of diplomatic finesse--in other words, not an incompetent.

[Biggirl]

Are you really sure?

Got to remember that area was a backwater for ancient Rome.