Dan has bigger goals.
And they are not what anyone think (unless you think he is a reptilian overlord here to help humanity by dooming it)

My biggest butting of heads with him was when he tried to talk about DPOS and MMORPGs.
He wanted the design to be your just start from the beginning and replay EVERYTHING any time anything breaks.
I tried to tell him that in an MMO, you spend most your time at full health (etc.) and so replaying so much is pointless. In fact, anything older than an hour is almost useless.
But, he wouldn't give on this point.

I find his logic to not be accurate.
I find that he seems to be bleeding a lot of money.
And his desires seem to be ... very strange