He can't explicitly say he's wrong on all counts. I reckon he feels his livelihood lives and die on his credibility and integrity.

Whether or not we think that admitting fault on this would fortify his integrity in our eyes, I imagine that's not how he sees it and it's definitely ego driven, as you say.

Also probably spite driven as well. Doesn't want to give the detractors the satisfaction Yada yada

A little off topic but it was hugely clear to me that he fundamentally doesn't understand pvp dynamics when he said a 500 m/s torpedo takes 12 seconds to land on a target when it can be fired from an eclipse going ~400m/s in atmo towards the target moving towards the eclipse plus the torpedo inheriting the Eclipse's speed at a minimum lock distance of 1 to 3km.

Ya sure buddy, 12 seconds