Honestly, I feel sorry for CWC. I know that's not fashionable to say these past 17 months, but I do. No excuse for doing what he did obviously, but I feel he was animated by an intense need for companionship and meaning, which is the result of his near life-long social isolation and rejection. Despite not really hurting anyone, he was bullied mercilessly for years. A fragile, broken mind, that clearly shattered under that stress. As an autist who was raised by two incapable parents, and basically meant to raise himself on vidya and the internet, he was never equipped with the coping skills to deal with these emotions, nor the common sense to disengage from the bullies. The Idea Guys, planting destructive fantasies in his head maliciously. Perhaps most insidiously, his illusions of grandeur propped up by his attention-seeking white knights, were exactly the sort of thing he would cling to. Obsess over. His missing purpose, his acceptance. But it was a poor substitute for actual genuine affection. The only times he's ever felt that were from people who would either take advantage of his trust for their own purposes, or people who would abandon him.
He's a pervert with a messiah complex. But somehow, I imagine a reality where he didn't have to walk that dreadful road of his alone. He might have ended up in a completely different place.