yeah did not leave any jaws hanging down to say the least. but ok its v 1.0 lambda was fast to do updates on genesis so it might grow pretty fast.
but as a first release 1channel or salts killer, no not really. nothing much innovative going on, like other say less than the genesis fork at this point with no library integration.
I dont think this is a carbon copy even though much of the code looks the same at the moment. knowing lambda wanted to recode at lot of genesis. when you reflect on the code afterwards its common to find that much could have been done better but the code has become to entangled, so sometimes its better/easier to recode the things you are unhappy with plus the code that 'in the way', especially if you are perfectionistic and mostly code for yourself but share it with other that might be able to use it. so if lambda did this i'm sure we will see all the stuff missing come back when he codes it again and better this time. though some things may be hard to see the code changes for the end user, it might ease hes job updating further versions with better code.
that's my take on it.