i disagree with this stance.
in traitors and monster hunter he made his team up of people pushing him.
remember in traitors he had ultra as his main scum read but the more you pushed him the more he put you apart of his scum team and then basically made a scum team of 3 people that were pushing him.
similarly in mwh his scum team was comprised of poyser and a few others pushing him. he wouldn't let it up.
in this game he was reluctant to put these groups together. i can see him trying to avoid this if he's scum so town can't work out who is town from his read lists.
also as odo and i mentioned previously, he did try repeatedly hammering in the idea that odo was a liar/full of shit but refraining from calling him scum which doesn't make sense if he thinks he's lying.