I guess some people do perceive him like that but the merits of the dev team will speak for themselves. He is not part of the dev team just a very vocal proponent.
This is known as the trolling thread. No one comes here for TA anymore but rather for the pictures and jokes. For TA we need to use a moderated thread. Risto had a good one a while back but its not active recently.
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He's pimping Monerooo now

I think that Monero would do better, if he would publicly distance himself from it.
Everything starts looking like a shady scam if you find out that he is involved. To me, he represents most of the things that are wrong with bitcoin. He's like the personification of greed, dishonesty and corruption.