Apologies, you are too quick with your responses!!! I should really take more time before I submit.
For sure. I'll also take the opportunity to add some more to my point.
I had a look at his wikipedia, and he's always been 'one of the guys who'. There's nothing there to suggest just having him on your team is some kind of bonus.
Re: the P&P Planescape setting - he took over, in conjunction with someone else, after the original guy left. I mean, it's resume stuff, but it's not a singular achievement.
He 'worked on' some games that were successful, but, again, it's resume stuff, there's little there that's any kind of singular achievement.
His 'big chance' was Torment: Tides of Numanera, that was his singular achievement as far as exhibiting any kind of pedigree, and that game had about as much backlash as this one is getting.
Yes, some people liked Numanera. Whatever someone makes, some people somewhere will like it. But, generally speaking, it was a forgettable bomb.
You now calling him someone with established pedigree is an almost perfect example of the concept of Failing Upwards.