I disliked Marshal’s formulation on their read on Mercenary, not the outcome of Mercenary being light town. I think Mercenary started out scummy and improved later on, which I did not get from Marshal’s post, which said they apparently had a strong start. I parroted some of Apprentice’s points there, because my thought process was similar.
I think this post itself is not disingenuous seeing as what happened in WWFM but the strong start formulating reads and pinging people for discussion and generally being aggressive is a fairly decent look so far because it comes off as someone trying to play a good game without being overly performative about that fact.