Nah, he was an arrogant asshole, that was his biggest problem. “I’m too smart to be caught, so I’ll do something even more likely to fail just to show how great I am!” - I mean, the whole “all according to keikaku” to take down L was super convoluted and he only had to make that shit up because he wanted to show off how much of a big deal he was by killing the fake L live on TV