When the developer spends lengthy blog posts explaining how a game works, I don't know what else you're supposed to assume, especially since none of the outside crowd truly knew how that game worked when he made that statement. When Randy Pitchford talked about Aliens: Colonial Marines, gave demos, etc., we only had his word to go on, so at the time, it was reasonable for us to assume that the game was the same game he showed off at press conventions.
Such an assumption ended up hurting us in the end, which I believe also happened to Polygon with SimCity. Everyone was caught with their pants down. I don't see any reason to hold grudges.
I guess that's what I'm trying to say with this whole Holly Green thing. She made mistakes, but it feels wrong to demonise her as a crazy feminist when that's only a quarter of the person you're likely seeing.