Occam's razor. What's more likely, it isn't trivial to do or multiple independent people telling an unfalsifiable lie about something they did that they feel increases their own cool factor.

Lots of comments on this thread about how 'easy' it is to create a replacement but nobody can point to a repo that replaces it? No front page story "I made a Harvest Alternative with AI and got a 'cease & desist'", there is even a comment made that google searches for 'Harvest Alternative' have skyrocketed. So which is more likely? I don't know.

My observation is that if people haven't done a thing, that is a desirable thing to do, that seems 'easy', then it is either not desirable or not easy.

I really do like to be proved wrong though, just one-shot a replacement, point me at the repo and tell me how you validated it to be functional. Because that is easy it shouldn't take much time, heck probably less time than it took for me to type all this.