I wonder if the negative behaviour was essentially knee-jerk lizard-brain reactions against other developers that wasted his time because they don't share his v

I wonder if the negative behaviour was essentially knee-jerk lizard-brain reactions against other developers that wasted his time because they don't share his values for Linux. If he maintained a manifesto of values for linux's kernel, always kept it up to date with the new technological choices and so on, maybe that would've kept the bike shedding away.