"Yes. He clearly put a lot of effort into communicating to me that he is not in fact my worst nightmare incarnate, but he... did not take any of the thousands of cheap shortcuts that would have been available to him in that enterprise. If he'd been lying, I think he would have cheated more. So he is, somehow, a slightly-but-not-disastrously more amoral version of me."

And then, because after all he's still Sherlock,

"Or he's playing a very long game indeed, which I wouldn't entirely put past him. I'd have to know more to get closer to ruling that out."