Yeah, this. Also, Okubo pit Spirit against Medusa and when Medusa explained that she was Chrona's abusive mother, SPIRIT GOT FUCKING PISSED. The comparison between them and their feelings for their kids can't be clearer: for all of his hugeflaws, Spirit does love Maka dearly and would NEVER abuse her in even 1/10 of the way Medusa treated Chrona.

So flawed as Spirit is, Mozart is clearly subjecting him to Ron the Death Eater despite how canon openly compares him to a much worse parent and established limits. Projection, much?