It is also of interest because at least ~$1m of funds were stolen from thousands of wallets made by people that wanted a simple and seemingly reputable CLI tool to generate a mnemonic and derive addresses for various coins.
It's far from the first time that people have sought to make themselves extra secure and as a result found themselves using obscure software which was inadequately reviewed and flawed or even outright backdoored and as a result received almost no security at all.