I partially agree with you that he's got guts, but I think more so that you hit the nail here:
Spez should honestly learn to read the room.
I think there may be something genuinely not right with his sense of social awareness. I'm not a ~~doctor~~ psychiatrist, etc., but when I read the post today from iamthatis about Apollo shutting down, the quoted text that came from spez really felt defensive to me.
I'm not sure if I can link to posts from Reddit, but I believe it is on the ModCoord subreddit, top stickied post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/
Sorry but as an added note, I don't know if I'd say it "pulls" from here. This is just where the running list started.