kinda, but also not
if he was town, he actually did the best he could in his situation
nobody was believing him and Town would have to use either lynch or town vig shots to get rid of that distraction
by using his own resources to off from the game he would be giving us a lot of info, saving our resources and protecting town from a possible convert character
i could see Ekko making this argument to YTW and him accepting it as not game throwing