I worked with a raving lunatic at a quantum startup in Toronto, where he (the founder) insisted fervently that he was the Bitcoin inventor. After the second time he brought it up, with me again forgetting to pretend I was impressed somehow, I totally gave up on him. His whole quantum product is probably a sham. Certainly the entirely fabricated life stories he continuously detailed to me, in addition to claims he had about what his product was able to do (I saw the code... from the parts I saw, it doesn't do what he tells his investors it does, and it was mostly copied from a Lisp meta-programming book readily available on the Internet for free) was a huge pipe dream stuffed with imaginative ego at the expense of reality. I only lasted a week because his nuttiness outweighed the income to be made working with him. Sad.
It seems Real Satoshis are a dime a dozen these days, 'cos they're popping up everywhere.
That is to say, until someone does something obvious to prove such claims, I have zero respect for anyone making said claims, and zero interest in articles claiming the probability of yet another OG Satoshi.
Linus probably just thinks it's too stupid to venture into that kind of discussion. And he'd be Wright.