This is definitely aligned with OT. OT typically comes in two steps—merge and simplify. Merge takes two divergent histories and puts them together into a collective view. Simplify takes that collective view and reduces it to a single "consistent" view according to domain rules.

With CRDTs the merge operation is made such that the simplify operation is id.

It's also interesting to note that the merge operation is just a pullback in the appropriate category.