Yes because that's how the math works. For the victims, who relied only on the hardware itself—which was coded idiotically and had an obvious bug in it—Coldcard never generated generated a truly random seed phrase at all. What they got was marginally better than inventing your own seed phrase in your head, and with the same predictable end result of someone recreating their easily guessable key.

But the people you're talking about DIYed their own randomization using dice and the BIP word list. This is not the same thing at all; they didn't rely on Coldkite's shitty code.