Then any replacement project should start with implementing a better test suite in order to know what you're doing. That has been the case with many other utilities such as ntp.

And it should most certainly not be possible to declare options and leave them as empty placeholders. That should be flagged just like an unused variable is flagged. That is a problem with whatever option library they chose to use.

That alone should disqualify it from being a replacement yet. We're talking about a stable operating system used in production here. This is simply wrong on so many levels.