may have some connection with the creator of this puzzle.
Are you going to start with that BS? Why as soon somebody has some succes everyone start talking about conspiration Theories? WHY?
There is no way to prove or disprove it. So there is no sense of keep talking in that way.
In his previous post, @RetiredCoder mentioned having 20 RTX 4090 GPUs and claimed to have used the kangaroo algorithm to solve the puzzle.
He mention that he use his own optimized kangaroo version, so what we can deduce from this is that the JeanLucPons kangaroo's version wasn't enough efficient as expected.