Not sure I see the conspiracy here. It's a 144-file PR that has significant management and performance issues, which seem to be the focus of the long discussion thread.
There's a specific comment in the middle that I think the title refers to where someone mentions that this has already been merged into the paid version, but now suddenly they can't get reviews for the free version:
End of the page he claims to have been physically impaired from working on this. No idea if that's true, just saying what's at the bottom of the page. It is a pretty huge patch though(I missed that upon first glance)