I've heard that many times about Weatherby's radiused shoulder designs. Basically he did it for the sole purpose of being an a-hole to the rest of the gun world. Not surprisingly, Bill Alexander learned nothing from him and basically did the same with his stupid captive reamer drawings. So people like Robert Silvers and Arne Brennan come along and fix it so the industry can have something useful, SAMMI-spec, safe, and public.
One thing is for sure, the big names in the shooting world have always been Alphas who were "characters", to say the least.