I tend to agree. If they said they had cleaned up the C++ backend that PyTorch uses and are releasing it separately on it's own with some usability enhancements

I tend to agree. If they said they had cleaned up the C++ backend that PyTorch uses and are releasing it separately on it's own with some usability enhancements as Flashlight, I could see that - they wouldn't have to maintain some other new thing. But this is apparently a completely separate thing.