I understand that, I know he's not a nobody, but why draw the line at him? His own rebuttal shows that he was himself building on previous work and while LSTM are very important, SOTA models are phasing them out in favour of attention based models. In computer vision CNN are still king and as far as I know he has no claim to those.

On top of that (although I understand why a researcher might not consider this to be important), Theano really helped democratize model development and deployment and it was developed at MILA under Yoshua Bengio's. You can't just hand wave the tools that actually sparked the new movement.