Perhaps, but all I ever claimed was that the Horten brothers studied Jack Northrop's early designs, and that's because I'd just read it in a book: :)
In comparision, I look at what goes on today with a precious snowflake class of spoiled rotten social justice warriors coming to bear on society and foresee a net ZERO positive contribution to the advancement of mankind from them.
It's alarming, bordering on disgusting.