Yep, and the other stuff like the debt ceiling and other things were inevitably going to come out the other end of the process as acceptable, even if the fight to get them hammered into shape would have been longer and more hair-raising then we may end up seeing now. It also comes across to me that he's bitter that he doesn't get to 'play' there anymore to cause trouble more directly.
edited to add that Bannon's 'help' is unlikely to do any real good being a raging apologist bitch, because Trumps own twitter feed was already doing all that same stuff.