That's one way to put it. Another one is he came up with a tool with a significant improvement regarding one of the main limitations of Patchmanager. The fact that patches for both tools are not compatible is a bad news, but a reasonable cost if we want to move forward and have a less hacky and more user-friendly solution that better deals with OTA updates.

It's a shame that it competes with the development for Patchmanager 3 (I did not know it was under development though, but I haven't been following either), but maybe the maintainers could team up and think about a generic approach putting together the best of both worlds.