Yeah, pretty much.
I'm very sympathetic to LS here. He and I come at it from a similar point of view: although I don't have his career in the markets, I've been close enough to them and several related fields. As a result, I have a deep and abiding respect for anyone who can take a complex system and find a brilliant way to game it, within the rules, to his own advantage. Hinkie's process was The Big Short, only in sports. Who can't admire the vision and sheer balls it takes to commit to such a contrarian role? So if that was what made him a basketball fan again, I get it. If Pedro Martinez was unceremoniously hounded from the game after 2002 for being, I dunno, too damn good at his job... I might have despaired of baseball fandom too.
I just agree with you that his anger is misplaced.