Let's be real here, you're not sniping anyone if the group isn't even releasing anything here.
Moreover, last time we had some Aharen action from a group other than FA, it magically woke FA up to continue their work on this series for half a dozen chapters then stop as you said late november, skipping ch67 to ch71 in the process, I don't even know if we had ch69 at all. This project seems to only serve as a mean to gather attention for FA, imo.
I'm not against them doing batch releases, that's fine and their work is good, but fussing about leaving MD and skipping chapters already done there doesn't align well, it gives a "something isn't right with that" kinda feeling, like trying to snatch back some traffic, so who's really sniping who in the end ?
Honestly, I'm kinda expecting FA to pop up again with Aharen chapters after this.
Then to be fair, who am I to judge anything ...
tl;dr : thanks man for the release, even though I can't vouch for the exactitude of the conversation you struggled with, you've got my support, I love this series.