You might have your reasons why you want Travis's coin to fail,
I don't want his coin to fail, it is going to fail quite fine without me. I'm just trying to minimise the fallout from yet another crapcoin shambles.
but shouldnt you at least give him some credit for doing this venture with his real identity?
Travis Mitchell exhibits all the hallmarks of narcissistic personality disorder with delusions of grandeur. He doesn't get credit for living out his delusions. He's not being honest about his identity, he wants you to know he is a big and powerful businessman with a hot ex-model sharpshooter wife who drives an expensive marque car he couldn't spell right.
This isn't him doing you a favour, this is him living out his fantasies of fame and fortune and power. He's not thinking the long game because in his mind he will always succeed, even when his past coin projects have failed it is always someone else's fault. If he's already walked away from failed coins that his identity was known on, what makes you think he's worried about this one going turtle when he's already laying the foundation of blame being down to dark forces who are out to get him and crush his coin.
By your own yard stick you are discrediting yourself by making character calls of this nature without being his shrink. There are many examples of people in the past called crazy because they had a grand idea that seemed improbable and way out. Without grand ideas (successful or not) we would still be in the stone age with no innovation and progression. Crypto is all about risk and venture capital - high risk high reward. I am willing to bet some BTC on a grand venture capital idea (at least is not backed by fertiliser).