Tim Ruijs

In the extreme one can regard Honbu Dojo as corporate business that provides a service: Aikido.
That service must be monetized on, commercialised. His son clearly deviated from the path his father walked.
Nowadays one can easily claim to be this or do that. Backtracing is hard enough for the 'in crowd', let alone for outsiders.

The one thing that is clear to me is that Ueshiba wanted us to develop our own Aikido. Many of his students say the same thing: this is what I do, you find your way.
The question boils down to what you consider Aikido, or aiki. Do your own work, study.