Yeah, I can see that you follow me, but most of the other people in the thread are probably not aware. The early funding and support from people who understood what happened allowed the project to continue and become GrapheneOS:
https://twitter.com/snowden/status/1047618052089696257…
It was a very rough year.
Since the project's Twitter account was seized by the company along with the infrastructure, they were able to very successfully cover up what happened and prevent the users / customers from finding out about the permissively licensed and free as beer continuation of the project.
They've muddied the waters by pretending they developed it and are actively maintaining / developing it. You can verify they aren't. They even created a whole bunch of empty/inactive repositories on GitHub primarily to break redirects to AndroidHardening which is now GrapheneOS.