Ok but instead of coming up with an excuse to explain their behavior, can you tell me how likely this actually is?
I'm gonna be honest, playing on WG, I expect people to press buttons and use their roles asap or pretty close to it. Only when someone is super inactive do they maybe skip a beat.
I don't really buy that this was a strategic withdrawl as town, because most players have ADHD from a role standpoint and especially most players here. That's just how role madness is. People press buttons, they claim shit.
They don't wait until n4 to do something and then oh it turns out I wasted my role, whoops!
You have to realize there's an obscured role in play and fake claims. If you wanna co-opt it, you have to convincingly work your way around the fact that you don't actually have that, or haven't used it in a way that's really that helpful.