That's the money basically.  And I am hoping they are not.  I am going to dig in a little this weekend and see what I see.  I have begun to make a list of "line in the sand" criteria.  For example I want full backwards compatibility with the old addressing scheme.  Similar to Segwit and Taproot.  But since this is a HARD fork (as usual) they do not HAVE to do that.  This one seems to obvious it hurts... they HAVE to have backwards compatibility.  Anyway... if I feel it is relevant I will share my thoughts.  (currently I doubt it will be lol... but we will see).

Also...  *IF* the Monero devs got captured somehow...  ah never mind.  I will bring that up later, maybe.