Palmer Luckey has always been an interesting case to me since I can't figure out how a guy smart enough to build the stuff he has can be so incredibly dumb and out of touch with humanity when it comes to stuff like this.
That mantra some of you repeat to yourselves all the time only gets you so far. The lack of self-awareness is probably part of how this mess got started in the first place.
Sad but true. :( Empathy and maturity (intellectual or otherwise) develop independently of technical skills. A lot of people need to confront a lot of failure and not getting what they want out of life before they feel compelled to look in the mirror. If I was considered a VR wunderkind at such a young age and had so much early success with a cutting-edge company like Oculus, I would probably also be cursed with thinking I'd figured it all out already, and that my challenges were all external and business- or engineering-related.
Another way to think of it is as another variant of "success hides failure", although in this case it's his business successes hiding his personal failures from himself. It's like the pattern of conceited or arrogant people so often being deeply insecure- ironic but sad, and really obvious from the outside looking in, but not at all apparent to the individual.