It appears that this is designed to prevent censorship, as opposed to Tor's broader goal of anonymization.

It's not that much different, just a rebranded version with a configuration that prioritises speed over anonymity (by permitting single hop relays so it effectively works like a normal http proxy), and doesn't select exit nodes in countries that block their website.

You can't trust it. Seriously, TPB is constantly full of spam and exploits inside of spam and spammy exploits. Why would you ever run an executable from TPB? What a joke.