Oh I actually think a lot of it is genuine.
The podcast Pollitt was on where he talked about a blacklist on the fridge - riders that wouldn't be allowed to win/get in a break. Pretty clear that Van Aert and Jorgenson especially are on it. I'm told Eenkhoorn confirmed he talked to Van Aert about it on Avondetappe (Dutch TV). When Jonas (and every other GC rider) is caught behind he has the DS very publicly tell him to slow it, and he does a bit of arm waving in the full knowledge the race for the break is on, then carries on chasing Jorgenson down so the break takes ages to get away - and with Wellens in it! Then he does the "weird Visma tactics, Jonas should be pissed off" interview just to try and cause some Visma tension and have Jonas answering soap-opera questions on the rest day. Van Aert is right that Pog could have just sat up and dropped back and the problem was solved immediately - the break would have gone away with no dangerous GC riders in it and everyone could chill.
Incidentally, before the break split up Wellens didn't take a pull - sat there saying he had Pog behind him, then attacks. Some might say that's canny racing, others might be a bit put out by it. I'm not sure it won him a lot of friends.
So at the end of the day, Pog got his teammate into a break that he won from after doing little work, protected his teammate by not letting Visma get Jorgenson into the break, kept Jonas chasing to get back and sowed the seeds of another Visma tactics/team cohesion media shitstorm but still gets to come out of it with everyone sniffing his @rse and saying it smells of roses
