All true, but if you were to just cut any random game he worked on and compared the dialogue side by side with the original text, you'd get a near identical picture as many of these.

"Son of a submariner" would be just as meme'd on as half of the most famously bad ones if it came out today, and we all know it.

Ted wasn't doing it out of malice and was pulling an unknown foreign element into the West, which is why its pretty forgiveable to most people, compared to them desecrating something people already love with gleeful sadism now, but the end result is still extreme censorship.