Ugh - the industry shouldn't give this type of toxic parasite any sort of work - let alone a starring role. All he does is play up the worst possible angles, enrage folks and everything.

I know it makes me a lot less interested in the game.

Some companies use extended pre-alpha phases and stuff and identify it differently.

The person is identified there by Codex as a dev - you can see that with the tag. It is Codex but they do that and there is a history for Obsidian Devs being there.