What do you think about Linus Torvalds taking time off?

In his email, Linus announced that he will be taking some time off from working on Linux to

get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately.

More snippets:

The fact that I then misread people and don't realize (for years) how badly I've judged a situation and contributed to an unprofessional environment is not good.

I need to take a break to get help on how to behave differently and fix some issues in my tooling and workflow.

What do you think about this? Did you expect this to come?