I don't think merging those two files will help, cause onyeep never posted a "how to", cause if he even came close to a tethered root, we'd be able to get root no problem after that.
I'd just disregard his posts cause he never came back, especially after me calling him a scammer after asking for money to get that "how to".
I'm gonna try the method someone posted even if its not our recovery that might not work, so a borked recovery with root is still fine by me.