Yep - and it’s exactly those engagements which select for individuals who have such high confidence in their own ideas and decreasingly have the incentive to be malleable.
He’s a smart and entertaining guy - I’ve been at a conference where he was a keynote. But his opinions and biases are strongly baked into the shtick and he wasn’t invited by the organizers to talk in a nuanced way about complex policy - He did exactly what everyone wanted from him.
Just makes you appreciate the real ones who stop and actually think without ego. Those are impressive people