Oh man... I'll let the Toaster vote keep going for a bit yet, before I point out a handful of critical flaws in that line of reasoning. Forgive me, but it's a great chance to get a peak at the Scum's hand.
Anyway, I'm going to present an old theory once more, now given a new light. Remember
when Max scanned Leafsnail, and he came up "changer"? Remember how we figured we had the Vampire Lord red-handed? I'm pretty sure we did, and still do.
Before D4, the Vamps managed to convert a Devil (if I had to guess, MBP fits the bill well, but for now this is irrelevant). Do you recall Leaf making a big deal how
the thought of an enslaved Devil was just stupid? That was his only defense... and what's worse is that we collectively accepted it as good enough. It wasn't good enough then, and what's worse is that now he's trying to rely on flavor-based claims for his defense once more, this time to wriggle his way out of what
was a surefire test of his claim. With Town pressuring him and MBP into proving it, the easiest way out was to fabricate new "rules" based on something no one could refute... IE the almighty "flavor".
I'm sure the reasons for falseclaiming as the Devil are obvious, but just to be obvious; by claiming Devil, VampLord Leafsnail can stick around on the fringe appearing relatively harmless, offering us a solution to our problems (I'll spirit away all these outliers and unknowns!), while his Devil partner delays completing his 3rd deal (thereby keeping him in the game and not flipping, thus revealing the whole deal). Each night they can delay means 1 more convert... they don't need to keep abusing the Town's faith for long until they win outright.
Anyway, above all remember how Leafsnail flipped Changer. I don't know about you, but I see Devil as far more a "Survivor" role than a "Changer". The obvious answer is that he's the Vampire Lord, and it's been staring us in the face.
What's this reversal from yesterday, when it was extremely unlikely that Leaf wasn't a Devil?
In regard to waffling on the Devil Deal through D4, I was weighing the merits of trying it and having it actually happen, versus the far preferable situation where it doesn't go through; who the deal is offered to, and how they try to explain it away speaks volumes. I just wanted to be sure we used that gambit to test someone I had reason to suspect, but little way to test... it was just another form of pressure, but one with the added bonus of being a concrete test with obvious results.
As for suspecting him, when scumhunting, we observe, suspect, and lynch, and afterward go back to observing everything in a new light. With Jim not flipping Lord (and thus not having falseclaimed) the body of probable falseclaims diminished, and old information can be seen in a new light. If your votes are stuck in a rut, not adapting to new times, then what you're doing is trying to give the
appearance of scumhunting, which is a horse of a different color, dancing to the beat of a different drum entirely.
I'd append this to say that I've been consistently gunning for Cultists through the whole game, and have nabbed more than a bussing's worth. Unless I absolutely adored shooting my team in the foot, me being Cult doesn't make much sense at all.