Glade had a lot of problems, and core Gnomes devs really recommended against it[1]. I think that dev for Cambalache didn't want to try to figure that out.
1. https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2020/11/19/glade-no...
1. https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2020/11/19/glade-no...