tl;dr: a person from the team decided to go all-in on AI slop.
Fortunately, the only resources affected are the .co.uk website and the Youtube channel, the firmware is still in the hands of the core developer team.
Definitely not, the design was quite carefully made to avoid the pitfalls of Meshtastic. The developers documented quite a lot of their early work. It really didn't feel like a vibe-coded type of environment.