User blog comment:Rafe Adler/"Stranger in a Strange Land" Discussion/@comment-25589722-20181013095313/@comment-3169324-20181013120500

(I didn't read either of the long comments because I'm feeling a bit lazy, so I'll just address this point)

The demon didn't care about Sam's approval per se. He wanted Crowley's "deal" with the Winchesters so that he'd be safe and so that the other demons would feel safe/comfortable working under him. It was a PR thing; nothing more.