Of course if a person who controls a crypto is with politics, it can affect it, their politics decision might affect the cryptocurrency that will make it very useless, not tradable and prone to market manipulation.
Really? but Bitcoin has politics in there because any improvement, change or update are depends on majority pools. So, it depends on their decision, hopefully they're always make decision by thinking about Bitcoin's purpose and it's longevity instead of their own benefit.
I believe in the future, we will know who he really is and the reasoning behind. For now, be grateful that we have this crypto market and blockchain tech that is revolutionizing a lot of things in how humanity is doing their businesses. Whatever his reason is, we are already benefiting from this market.
Or maybe he will appeared not in our generations, so we will know Satoshi as completely unknown person.