This is wrong.

One guy associated with the project, but never a contributor to the firmware, decided to create his own vibe-coded client/app and to trademark the name of the project. The rest of the team said "no" to that and continued doing what they were doing before.

The reason Meshcore works better for texting is the different routing. It has nothing to do with the recent drama.

This is the first I've heard of it so I guess its not a real project then.