I feel like this makes it even more confusing as to why this "drop-in replacement" is yet another new competing project rather than an upgrade/enhancement to an

I feel like this makes it even more confusing as to why this "drop-in replacement" is yet another new competing project rather than an upgrade/enhancement to an existing linker (such as lld)... has open source as a community concept failed so hard that people are unable to even contribute to and collectively improve projects they themselves started?