Originally Posted by
Baloo
It's pretty clear you're going to stand by your opinion on this one TH. Even though your rationale appears to still be evolving.
In your first post you simply stated that someone told him it wouldn't be a problem.
Then you added into a follow-up post that it also might actually have been that nobody specifically told him that it would be.
Now in the latest you're saying he may also have actually been told it's a really bad idea.
But in every evolving scenario he's absolved of responsibility for a decision he made. I think you're missing the simplest and most obvious explanation - as outlined in the rebranding statement that he would have signed-off, that he knew very well it would be controversial and unpopular for some fans, but he just wanted to do it anyway.