This suggests that there never actually was a Lloyd the bartender, and instead, that was simply a role invented by the hotel for its own sinister use. Jack was made Lloyd the bartender to try and tempt Danny into drinking, and then swiftly shifted into Grady's old waiter role when that became most convenient for the Overlook. While the natural assumption up until Doctor Sleep was that Lloyd was simply a real bartender that once worked at the Overlook and eventually died there, the fact that Jack has now been swapped into the same role suggests that when the hotel absorbs a soul into its pantheon of ghosts, the malevolent structure then places its pawns into whatever pre-made roles it sees fit, regardless of what they did in life. The Shining gives no backstory on Lloyd, and Jack improbably knows his name without having met before, suggesting that the hotel just planted that suggestion in his mind.
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