And FinalFlame hasn't been following his nonsense for as long or as closely as me and a good handful of others. He really isn't reliable. FF was
likely referring to the specific case, tbqh.
Or maybe you're FF's Metacouncil alt?! Who knows!
But yeah, he's
credible except when he isn't which is also surprisingly often despite the lack of "speculation" tagging
It's also really important to note that FF hasn't been at Valve for a
long time & Tylers rarely credible outside of things set in past tense, quite often
very long time ago-tense.
At least in my experience & with the stuff I've managed to suss out & be privvy to.
Though "shitnugget" probably didn't come off as a funny remark despite it sounding like one in my head, so I apologise for Tyler on that one.
I digress, unless something is datamined or directly quoted, it's basically flinging spaghetti at the wall, seeing what sticks.
I mean as recently as a few months ago he made a plethora of laughable claims about Boneworks & about the reason for Alyx being a no-show at TGAs, both of which are... Well, if you've not been following either game it might not be evident, but again, laughable.
("Boneworks is a secret HL game" U wot m8 even Brandon, the creator, didn't get the insanity of the theory
)