Exactly; would have been much cleaner. The recent update to v2 already required migrating one's config. So doing it again (now knowing the process) to such new "fork-fork" would've been a no-brainer.
But the whole situation has a more critical aspect than this technical issue: the new dev's appearance out of nowhere, lack of reasonable communication, and arrogance.
Well, it can show traffic data as overlay via Raster maps using the Online maps plugin, but not consider it automatically in navigation.
Here are various traffic layers of proprietary providers that can be added as online map source: https://anygis.ru/Web/Html/Download_en?shortSet=true&app=OsmandSqlite