A lot of what Satoshi did was not intelligent. His big innovation comes from combining merkle trees and Adam Back's hash cash. He just made of blender of existing works and it worked out well for Bitcoin, but don't be fooled into thinking that means he was an infallible genius.

Imagine, you download Bitcoin core and you have to wait for a week for it to download because of all the games and marketplaces that are prepackaged with the software.

Hal Finny is the reason the full blockchain download doesn't take longer than it currently does.

So don't take anything Satoshi said as gospel. Think for yourself. A single person is an idiot. A city of well learned people, correcting each other's mistakes, is collectively smart.