Adopting the concept, yes. Better would have been for them to use Webmentions, which are what Pingback should be; that is, not using XML-RPC, I think -- Pingback was designed when that was the cool thing, which it no longer is :) https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2014/11/29/enabling-webmentions/ has more on that!
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