Nope. I wouldn't call him as an idiot. He created his own currency and named it "Bitcoin Satoshi Version" in order to create doubt in the mind of cryptocurrency users. He made well planned moved with his BSV coin and in the end he made profits worth hundreds of millions of USD. Idiots are the ones who had the misfortune of falling in to the trap set by CSW.

He accumulated a lot of BSV, at dirt cheap rates by provoking the crypto community (by filing lawsuits against his critics). A lot of the exchanges started delisting BSV, and the panicked users sold those coins at whatever rates they could get. Craig Wright accumulated a huge amount of BSV at very cheap rates. A few weeks later, he filed a patent claiming ownership to Bitcoin, and the BSV prices zoomed up by 150% or more. He sold a part of his stash and made many hundreds of millions of $$$ in profit.

He is one of the most intelligent players in the cryptocurrency market I have ever seen. He planned each of his steps in a meticulous manner and implemented them without any flaw.