it definitely feels like it's riffing on parts 5 and 6 a lot with the focus on crime, and actually going with a heist narrative could be really good for araki's style
at least part of this is because it's a fan translation from the day the chapter was published, the original japanese obviously doesn't consistently use he/him
i'll give it a shot, and i think the most likely outcome is it doesn't really come up again and it's just something that i don't really like but can ignore