People overthinking this and making so many technical qualifier as to why OP is wrong. It’s just a comparison of two pairs of species that are only a handful of clades removed that share similar body plans. It’s not a correct or incorrect statement. Just OP’s observation.

I don’t see a problem. The broken escalator is still stairs.

Too busy staring at those special fingers.

I prefer the term slot machine coding because you keep thinking you almost have a jackpot but there’s one lemon in there so you get that rush to keep pulling the lever and expecting different results.