He's the "Game Design Lead", which explains why STO is so backwards in oh so many ways. Not to mention, his overall hatred of the canon ships. For a very long time, he refused to add the Ambassador Class on the grounds of it being "too similar to the Galaxy Class", making it difficult (in pvp) to tell the difference between ships.
Yet here we are, 4 years in, with an entire "faction" of Romulans being able to ally with either side. You literally could end up with Romulans populating both teams in PVP, and not knowing which ones are allies, and which ones are hostiles.