As much as I like the actor, and felt that the character of Aiden had been tossed into the garbage can last year.....& was so glad he was brought back, using the doppleganger as the excuse as to why he was not dead....Aiden is even more of a bad person now than he was before.
So...definitely not on his side, team, or whatever you want to call it. He crossed the line long ago, and continues to put that line further behind him. Currently, he & Andre are both the same. Make insinuations that really are threats, manipulating situations to their own advantage, pretending one thing, while the intention is something else, and that something else is NOT GOOD, for anyone except themselves.
I think Stefano deserved to die, I think he was already going to, was ill, so goaded Hope into shooting him, his last piece of mischief, which is why he laughed.
The bad thing, to me......was the coverup.
But Josh Griffith (ex-headwriter) just made it too easy for Andre to get suspicious of Stefano's absence, and begin snooping. That was just too over the top. And then, Andre did break into Hope's house, and steal that gun. Just tooooo convenient & easy.
The thing is, she told Roman, he did nothing, kept the secret. However the new writers "fix" this, gonna be interesting, for sure.