I don't know Roger personally but I can say that Craig (BSV) and Amaury (ABC/XEC) were intelligence operation within bcash after the split which means they were already present during the BTC and BCH split. Which as you correctly stated means that Bitcoin in 2017 had been already perfectly undermined by operations on both sides. Roger as far as I can tell fell for the intel koolaid, but he corrected his path. He's one of the few publically known OGs that still has "some" credibility left.

Bitcoin Jesus aka Roger was to early adoption what Andreas Antonopolous was to technical and economical understanding, while Nick layed out the philosophical and game theoretical ground work. Without those three Bitcoin would have had taken another trajectory. I do think that all three are to this date consistent and I don't think they are compromised.

when you observe the re-intermediation and swelling centralized L2 adoption that exists in bitcoin today, where are roger ver's greasy handprints??? he didn't want this. if you actually listened to him, he wanted the opposite.

Roger was duped at the beginning by Segwit2x. He was not against layer twos. Why should one? He was just against layer twos in order to fully restrict layer one as a potent MoE.

maybe he actually read the litecoin whitepaper and understood that there needs to be more room for channel maintenance or it will become centralized. which it did.

* lightning network whitepaper I've had a long day