[nnethercote]

Being a distinguished engineer at Mozilla does make it more likely that there is something significant behind the "things I can't talk about".

[seanflyon]

It also gives him an ulterior motive. I am happy to hear what he has to say, but "just trust me" is not convincing.

To be clear, I am not accusing him of dishonesty, but I don't trust him to be impartial. People have a tendency to overvalue the thing they are working on.