Is the link you provided right? I don't see how it relates to this. I generally agree with your statements, but I wouldn't want to run a project like LibreSignal with the lead of the original project not wanting my project to exist, although I find moxy's behaviour in this case very unsetteling.
Also Signal has a history of shutting down third party clients, e.g. there was an effort making Signal completely FOSS and publishing it on F-Droid and Moxie shut them down for using the official servers, as well as the name: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...