Perhaps I’m alone here but I have to admit that I was kind of disappointed after reading it.
Parity-Zcash client is already syncing the Zcash blockchain and while I do hear the reason to (kind of) start from scratch, I can’t help to think that the Parity client was built for (sort of) nothing. All these months of development and money spent to finally decide it’s not good enough because it carries the Bitcoin baggage?
That said, I wholeheartedly support the Foundation engineers on their new endeavor 