No need to be accusatory. The stories are different, just the learned behavior is the same. And not very surprising, considering your story was pre-empted by Pac-Man speedrunners, who already discovered this technique, which they call "kiting".

You can see the paper OP wrote to confirm for yourself that their story is not the same as yours: https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2299/15376/906989....