You're weirdly inferring two things that I didn't come close to saying. Again, while I don't know him personally, I hold in great regard people that do and am

You're weirdly inferring two things that I didn't come close to saying. Again, while I don't know him personally, I hold in great regard people that do and am simply relaying what they've told me, which is that whatever the nature of the change happened, be it personality or intellect or interests or whatever, it set him on a different path and likely robbed all of us of whatever the fruits of his previous path would have borne.