>>36606891I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s accurate.
[Heavy Tamers spoilers to follow]
In the show he was literally the plot device of the concept of digivolution itself given life as a digimon way to hide it.
Not only does he basically enable all of the protagonist’s ultimate level digivolutions, but towards the end he basically causes the entirety of the inhabitants of the digital world to digivolve to Mega, in preparation for their worlds final stand against the true big bad.