I think it is normal since the software wasnt ready for production yet; at work we also have forks and forks of forks just to demo new features for people. At the end he did deliver a working product unlike many game devs these days.

Why just not use universal android debloater?

Not really an insult but:

“Hänellä ei taida olla kaikki muumit laaksossa”
“They don’t seem to have all moomin in the valley”

When someone is talking crazy, etc

they buy keys using stolen credit cards and then resell them