It takes a special type of person to be a Foss developer. There isn’t a lot of pay and unfortunately a lot of people seem to feel entitled to your work. It’s a hard thing to manage. I know the head of the project left because of that feeling. Not sure what this new departure is about exactly. Though it could be related to him just as much as anything else.

I just wanna run fedora on an M4 already

Don’t count on it. According to their website not even M3 is supported.