Looking at the time in which he first made the proposal to register as an NP, you can see it was more than a year ago. I think it’s fair to say that something happen prior to your antics that made him back off from becoming a Node Provider.
Anyways this type of discussions don’t seem productive anymore since real progress is being made in this thread where curiously you have remained absent, considering it’s a topic you love to talk about. Hopefully you are liking the current changes and don’t come later on complaining about it.