This definitely makes plenty of sense; Holman spent much of his career working on Sealab 2021, a series that directly cribbed the animation from a previous series (Sealab 2020) and used it for its own storytelling.
Neal Holman addressed the similarities between Pacific Heat and Archer in a recent interview with Uproxx, and he wished the fledgling Netflix cartoon well.
He knows this business, and he knows how tough it is to start a show.
Coming from a place of empathy, he reminisced on Archer’s struggle to find its own voice during its early years, and he seemed willing to give the new cartoon a chance.