The problem with COG is that he's naive. Or at least he acts as though he is. People can act in bad, manipulative, selfish ways, and the best way to predict what it'll be is to look at the patterns. I'm all for trusting/giving the benefit of the doubt to someone who has an established pattern of good behaviour, but Heywyre's h most certainly does not. Yes, he can establish a new pattern, but right now, I'd trust him as far as I can throw him, and am, through the Heywyre-lens, watching him like a hawk.
Don't throw around pretty words where there are no pretty actions.
I'm very much looking forward to Heywyre's report of the ST.