Sorry I’m slow getting back to you! You are so right about Inafune sounding like Wily, “Keep your hands off MY Zero!”^_^ And just as you thought, he doesn’t like Command Mission, but secretly I’m glad. If he had been involved, it might not have turned out so well. I don’t think he could have made its excellent fighting system.
I have very mixed feelings about Inafune. Sure, he pushed Capcom to keep making Rockman and X games for as long as it did, and he personally gave us one of the most interesting characters.^^ But, as you point out, he complains about anything different. The executives at Capcom probably felt Classic and X were stagnating, and Inafune wouldn’t keep up with the times. I think he ended up hurting the games he was trying to help.