> It's not that keeping the poor behaviour is benefitting him in any way. It's more that the new solution is not his solution and he's got a lot riding on his s

> It's not that keeping the poor behaviour is benefitting him in any way. It's more that the new solution is not his solution and he's got a lot riding on his solution being chosen (justify his code rewrite). It might also be worth to add that he might have been subjected multiple times to alternative theories that were refuted, and in his eyes this new outlandish theory isn't even the most credible one on that list.