A Reward for Disobediance

I keep thinking about Satan's line that it is better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. I know this is an odd concept, but I keep thinking that in a way by being cast out of Heaven, Satan was rewarded for his disobediance.

Now don't get me wrong, if given the choice I would much rather serve in Heaven than the alternative, but Satan is a different breed---thank God. And he did after all get his wish. God may have cast him out, but in exchange for this he received a brand new world, created especially for him, in return. Given the kind of character he is, he would not have been happy with Heaven the way it was, even if he had somehow defeated God he would have ended up turning it into Hell anyway, so in a way he was rewarded for his disobediance. Perhaps this was also God's way of saying what we have been saying in class all along-in order to be truly good, you have to know evil, so Hell had to be created as a point of comparison-and the perfect leader is Satan.