Well despite these quotes I do think that this is nor an exceptional thing nor impossible since it was long speculated that bitcoins was indeed made by a team and a group of people and it was not something that could have been done by a single person. The programming and the introduction it would have taken years for sure. Plus I do not think that it is wrong..... The inventor is always the inventor and he for sure would employee people to help him out with it. That's how a company works for real.
At the same time I do think people already know that the idea of bitcoins did not originate within seconds , rather it was a long process.
For example a quote from wiki :
Cryptographer David Chaum first proposed a blockchain-like protocol in his 1982 dissertation "Computer Systems Established, Maintained, and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups
Which does mean that Mr. Satoshi would have read the guy's article and worked and created the idea and then assembled the team to make this real !! That's just how inventions are, it's always a group effort.
But when we assume that Satoshi was a team we make a claim that contradicts with what he said (see the relevant quote i gave).
Also if you see the matter from another angle it was a team project.! That s why he choose also a free license and in a broader angle he acknowledged in his paper the work of others. So it is a team effort . I think there is a contradiction in assuming that someone made a team and then he open source it.
But we can discuss on what point others start contributing..
So i think we can make a strong argument in favor of his position that he did the paper and the initial code.
Lastly i want to repeat being curious or studying the history of project , trying to approach its origins dispersing scam artists , myths , hypes etc is a just endeavor that can happen without compromising the Satoshi anonymity. . And as i said my initial stimulus was reading and seeing people using Satoshi name (i refer to the years 2015-17 and many notable claims to his identity that were accepted) with an ease that was astounding and the (i hope ) temporary download of Satoshi paper from bitcoin.org due to such claims.
So i see a danger here. If we dont try to discuss the history we leave ground for whatever claim to grow .
In that spirit the quotes i gave from Satoshi, a pretender of his legacy and a cypherpunk shed a little light to incosistent stories that circulate with such ease and help to disperse them.
Also lets dont forget that there was a lot of discussion on digital cash on cypherpunk and other crypto lists where for anyone interested you can see how ideas were tested from the best minds.
For example Adam Back once wrote how an Anonymous idea from a decade before Satoshi was in his spirit very close.
So the idea was being worked in many minds as a team.. you could say..from 1992.