Disagree. He’s directly saying that if you don’t do it the riv way you’re doing it wrong.
The entire basis for his marketing is built on something else being the wrong way to do things and his way being the right way.
It’s not about presenting his designs and ethos and saying “I like this, maybe you will too”. It’s all about requiring racing/racers to be some sort of foil for him to point to as wrong to justify his design decisions.
We’ve talked about this ad nauseam, but when you move past pure aesthetics it’s gets harder and harder to justify his brand. We joke about how a Kona Dew or a Crust does what most Rivs do for substantially less money and it’s sortof true. What Grant really sells is Grant. So of course he’s going to lean into that. But it’s such a one-dimensional thing, he’s kindof run out of material. At least that’s how it seems to me. He’s becoming an exaggerated version of himself. Maybe it’s because he’s dug in so deep his followers would never let him change any way. Maybe he’s just an old troll.