Yes.

If we don't attack ourselves, our enemies will instead.

he's trying to prove a point by being insufferable; he opposes the edit feature because it can be misused, so to prove that he... well... misuses the feature; but I think he doesn't realize that clients can deal with this.

for example a client could show up to the last n edits, or only show edits where only x percent of the post changes, or a myriad of other things I'm not thinking of