It seems like it. Envoy was already competing with Linkerd, and "Istio uses an extended version of the Envoy proxy" (source: https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what

It seems like it. Envoy was already competing with Linkerd, and "Istio uses an extended version of the Envoy proxy" (source: https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html https://istio.io/docs/concepts/what-is-istio/overview.html). So it does that and more.