Ironically, the company that bought µTorrent was BitTorrent, Inc[1]. They're the geniuses also responsible for forking IPFS, renaming it to "BTFS", and not acknowledging IPFS as an upstream in any way[2].
BTFS is the product of an entirely different group of people than the ones who were responsible for the uTorrent purchase. BitTorrent Inc was itself bought by cryptocurrency company TRON in 2018. Few people who worked at BT Inc prior to the acquisition are still there, and AFAIK none of them ever worked on BTFS.
Different team of people, all working in the same company, correct?
Technically yes, but as is typical with an acquisition there's residual divide between projects which originated from the BT Inc side of the company and those from the TRON side. BTFS is very much a product of the TRON side despite using the BitTorrent branding.
Wow, that's a bummer, had no idea the people behind the hollowing out and filling with shit of µTorrent include the actual creator of the protocol itself.
If it makes you feel any better about it, that tweet thread is from 2020, and the actual creator of the protocol itself hasn't worked there in a day to day capacity since 2017.[0]