Most people are not joining his new project. Source: I was part of the core team.

Aha, so the original post was inaccurate, intentionally or not. Thanks for the info!

Dude. I worked for you. You are that person. Your company didn't get built. It's a failure. Lol

Yeah, but isn't being greedy with optimizations good?

Not when it comes at the expense of security. Perhaps there are contexts where security is not important and this rule does not apply, but it clearly is a problem for CPUs.