I kinda thought so, I remember the original video, testing it on custom hardware, honestly I only thought it would be a temporary thing as well, and I was also surprised it lasted as long as it did.
Bit of a shame it just shut down with zero warning, but hey, it slowly waned in popularity so it seemed inevitable... Just a shame there was no download for the 1.16 stuff, managed to get the old 1.12 Alpha and Beta worlds luckily.