You are probably right.
However, I doubt that Barry could stand the heat of critical discussion and he would probably decline. I suppose we will never know without offering to include him.
On the subject of conferring some respectability or professional status by referring to this or that with the suffix "naut". I don't get it. If I call someone a psychonaut does that confer some credibility? Does Doctor of Jive or Doctor of Death imply something favorable? To use the terms with anything other than a legitimate function is only sarcasm.
Regardless of some vague references to the "value" of their puttering, it suffices for me that they are not allowed to putter here