I believe that this is not true. The referenced change was for the latest updates in decentralizing the coordinator and updates with soroban. Whirlpool client always had tor identity mgmt and Sparrow and Sam wallet were dependent on the whirlpool client. 

https://image.nostr.build/a0bbbc57aa8f4f61461326387e38d03586b9e2524da50953e02a89cff7365965.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/a0bbbc57aa8f4f61461326387e38d03586b9e2524da50953e02a89cff7365965.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/8571c859e624b9564d2e12ca0277e781632787a0f74165f49ac07de92205f5f4.jpg
 

 https://image.nostr.build/15df5f4b7457271566ddc4a7886e7d2af3600d9c8edb748fe73b75bde17cd73a.jpg 

 be worth having @craigraw input, however unlikely that may be