Far be it from me to speak for Registered either, but if I was him, I'd be offended by that remark.
Don't mean to speak for him, just a surmise on my part because it is true for me.
Iron sharpens iron. If what you're made of is that weak, something or someone else besides me would have just brought out the flaws.
You ain’t sharpening iron, chum, you’re watering it.