jack
The Legendary Troll King
It seems like the TVA's history has been totally rewritten with the statue of Kang (He Who Remains if you don't read COMCIS) replacing the statues of the fake Time Keepers. I guess Loki remembers the original timeline because of a temporal wake or some bullshit.
Didn't they only rejact He Who Remains' offer after the point where he knew everything that would happen had passed? So he genuinely didn't know what would happen, which was part of the thrill for him.
IMO that's what happens when you create something like the TVA. Stephen King tried it in his "1963" novel and it was very interesting. This story has upped the idea exponentially. The sequence before she guts him is especially telling in that way.