in early days of torrent connections were slow and people were using rotational disks that were fairly cheap relative to connection speed.  it made sense to use a system that traded disk space inefficiency for bandwidth efficiency.  

as people switched from desktop towers to laptops to phones and connections went from DSL to Cable to Fiber and 5G we are now more constrained by storage than bandwidth.

thus torrents gave way to streaming.

maybe there is a reason those devs aren't interested in torrents anymore ...