That might be the best thing happened to the project since now development can happen at its own pace without the clicky bait influencers.

In fact they delivered the erasure coding for parity raid back in march this year.

The thing is that as soon as you seriously give a chance to Bcachefs you see how good it is. I can only tell you that mixing different device tiers and having a per-file/directory replication setting is a god send specially in these times where storage costs more than gold.

It's relatively easy to get it working as a kernel module at least. I got it set up on a NixOS box without too much trouble.

that's not necessarily a sabotage.