Yup I've seen this too. A friend of mine didn't really want kids and his partner really did and she really liked kids too. He flat out told her if she wanted kids, he'd help her make them, but would not help her raise them. I mean I guess he was honest and up-front about it. Sadly, the relationship ended when his partner was killed in an accident. I don't know how they didn't see how incompatible they'd be on the basis of their differing views on reproducing.
I know I've said this before, but it bears repeating: it's VERY easy for men to say they want kids - even if they can't stand them - because they are not the ones who are expected to deal with them. At least, not in their own minds. That's the woman's job, after all. I am reminded of the post from some years back in r/legaladvice about the guy who coerced his unwilling girlfriend into having a baby and she promptly dumped the kid in his lap and left him right after it came out. She paid more in child support than she needed to, but she never saw the kid or took part in its life and instead chose to go out and enjoy her life without the kid she didn't want. Duh was whining about how hard it is being a single parent and asking people how to legally force the "deadbeat" ex-girlfriend to take care of her child because he didn't want to. Needless to say, he got absolutely chewed out by everyone in the comments.
I've also heard the excuse before about how men don't do a lick of parenting when their kids are really little because they like interacting with slightly older brats. Not in a pervy way, but that they didn't really have any interest in parenting very young kids. That's real nice and all, but why do they think they can fuck off until their kids reach a more convenient age?
I know the answer to that: they know the Moos won't let the kids be neglected, so there are no consequences when they ignore their kids' existence for the first few years of their lives. These are the same men who, if left alone with their own infants for a week, would let them sit in the same filthy diaper the whole time and let them starve and scream. Then when Moo comes home and finds the kid dead or almost dead with diaper rash up to its neck, Duh will just go, "You didn't tell me I had to feed it/change its diaper."
As far as the dumbfuck from the link, of course he and his sister have a good relationship with their father. He waited until they were a more "fun" age and was most likely the "fun" parent while Mommy was the mean bitch who enforced rules and said "no" to everything. I like how he thinks his father ignoring his kids for over a decade didn't cause stress on his parents' marriage. I guarantee it did. Does this asshat realize he can just, you know, NOT have kids if he doesn't like them? So he intends to just have kids and ignore them until they are almost teenagers? I sure hope he shares this little nugget of wisdom with any potential partners so they can either run far and fast or be extra careful with their birth control.