So, is Linus pretty much the same guy? I know he took some time off and the kernel team adopted a code-o-conduct, and had that introspective e-mail ... but now that he's back ... is it any different?
He never agreed to roll over and agree with every technological persuasion, he agreed to be nicer to people. This was nice to people, but rude to a technology (ZFS), that seems consistent.
Most of his worst rants were directed at maintainers who commited changes that resulted in bugs in the kernel.
The OP of this thread is from a user, so perhaps we need to wait until another big bug gets commited to see the results of his hiatus.