They had not.
Zero-byte appraiserres.dll instead of hunting for old 10 iso's or worse (notepad edit the binary dll with potential undefined behavior)? AveYo.
AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU first public appearance? AveYo. Microsoft issued their blog post after the script got popular.
OOBE/bypassNRO? AveYo. It was a mdl contest on various ms account workarounds, until the bomb dropped.
Refined AutoUnattend.xml and placing it in boot.wim index 2 as to not interfere with setup under windows? AveYo.
Multiple workarounds to use insider feature updates on unsupported PCs? AveYo. In 2023 microsoft has stopped "innovating" in that regard, probably all these things being pulled into the public from obscure enterprise support discouraged their anti-user efforts, but there used to be a lot of explicit breaking of bypass techniques, that the script conquered each time.
Rufus heavily borrows from all these techniques for example, not the other way around.
It was enough that nobody gives credits but they gain a lot of clicks, but this insinuation was too much and had to be corrected, that's all.
More on, topic, I'm really curious if this potato can run the latest Canary builds:
If it can, will probably run better than it ever run with Windows 10, as Canary lately feels much more robust
Brinks guide is pretty thorough on page 1 and he always keeps them up to date when new info is available.
