I think this is fairly shortsighted. While I do think that germline gene modification will probably become routine, He specifically was a serious doofus who shat the bed for this area- he made a collection of poor decisions that would easily have been caught in hindsight, ignored multiple suggestions to improve his plans, ignored multiple suggestions to not proceed, and then managed to make a change that probably didn't achieve what he intended. Getting all those things wrong mean he's not going to be considered a visionary or pioneer.