@xianc78 nah he's a programmer too. man spent so much time working on smash 4, i think it was, that he had to be temporarily hospitalized. a game director or designer wouldn't even have enough stuff to do to warrant that.
dude programmed the entirety of kirby's dream land on a trackball: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/04/the-first-kirby-game-was-programmed-without-a-keyboard/