pgarchive's search frontend

I deployed pgarchives and pglister using a custom application for the auth system.
Now we just noticed that the search function did not work because the frontend is deported to pgweb, and pgarchives
onlyprovides a json API.
 
What is the rationale behind this? Would it make sense to move the frontend to pgarchives and send a patch here?

Thanks,
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Célestin Matte