Oh, both he and Rik Alvarez are no strangers to throwing shade over past things they disliked. Rik has especially thrown all other parties involved with the Aligned continuity under a bus several times over, just because they didn't want to play ball with his personal plans for it. Plans that he keeps changing his story about every time he gets a chance to bring them up.
Why, just this past weekend at the event, during the Beast Wars merchandise panel, Rik gave some ludicrous claim about Thundertron being meant to be reformatted into a new version of Lio Convoy in the canceled fourth season of TF: Prime.