Pretty clear from the article why he did the interview:
> What happened is that the community team were getting a lot of questions about AI and asked if I wanted to help give some answers. I agreed. I’ve seen people speculate that I was forced or coerced into giving the interview and I want to be clear that that wasn’t the case at all. I was asked to, but I could have said no. I went ahead with the interview because based on my awareness, and the internal communication on the progress of the project, I believed we were going to ship another game like Shogun 2.
>but I could have said no.
And that was the Dunning-Kruger moment. He confesses that he basically knew fuck all about it, and then complains that everyone was pissed because he knew fuck all about it.
>I believed we were going to ship another game like Shogun 2.
Despite all the evidence to the contrary.
Were mistakes made by putting a clueless idiot infront of the community? Sure. Sounds like a lot of mistakes were made. But this whole post is jumping on the recent problems to try to claim "See, it was them the whole time, not me!" Unfortunately in another DK move, OP fails to understand that his own testimony is damning. And now we are all reminded of it! Genius!