For me, another huge issue was that I moved around a lot when I was younger due to college, work, family, etc ...
The few collections I had back in the day (mostly vinyl), I ended up leaving at my parents' place. Otherwise it was too much stuff to move around. For several decades, I...
(On a more general tangent).
It's more like typical behavior of a person who has been in their own "bubble" for so long, and don't have any context of somebody else who is not a like minded fellow "bubble" traveller.
Even if spite wasn't the primary motivation, it was showing a precise precedent that anybody is "replaceable" in the tv business. Nobody is irreplaceable.