It’s not as stupid as this blog post makes it sound. This was a hashing function that was intentionally taking the end of the path as the most significant part. This just impacts the order of objects in a pack file, and the size of the compression window needed to compress it.
It’s not actually mistaking one file for another, and their proposed solution is not better in all situations.
I think graphene does this by default now? Like if you don’t unlock it for 24 hours it’ll reboot.