Carson has basically no sense of ethics. What he did to that other puzzle maker is unethical and is just one example of how he's kind of a trash person who simply wants to use anyone or anything he can for his gain. It's not illegal but just very shitty behavior that will bite him in the ass, and clearly it's starting to.
I wouldn't call him clever or enterprising, because clearly there's no depth to anything he's working on – overselling his role with NASA and using NASA in his pre-season merch drop to make money; his subscriber page and how not only he deleted most content with no communication but charges hundreds/thousands for nudes (all while pretending to be squeaky clean and flat out lying about his "holy" ethics in interviews); making a podcast with Carolyn where he was all about the ads from ep 1, which thankfully, presumably CBS shut down ASAP. I'm sure there's more.
Carson is a user and I fully believe this story because it lines up with everything else Carson has done. I want to like him and think he's so hot, but it's been mostly negative or sus over the last year of him. So disappointing.