Ha! That would do it. Well, guess he stewed on the idea long enough he had to take a swing at the problem.
There is something to be said for, not editing your old posts, but applying a preface that references later iterations on the idea. I wish I were better about that myself.
"In this article from 2017, I talk about dinglehoppers, which have since been improved by research from these three papers [1][2][3]. Here is where I revisit this topic in 2021."