I would probably be more open to that idea if this was the only forum where this happened but as others have pointed out there seems to be a trend from @maltfield of not disclosing their COI.
The whole thing stinks and its suck to see a thread with such a disingenuous title and author get to stick around.
Personally I think @jonah is in a tough spot as it is seemingly hard to get devs to stick around on this forum, outside of just boosting their own project, so PG is forced to give them extra extra extra benefit of the doubt when they do happen to engage (even in bad faith).