So there is a functional side to Maeda Bo, and its maybe 500 to 700 years old. So here's a bit of senile old man conjecture: The original person named Maeda was from, or founded Maeda village and they did have a style that encompassed both bo and open hand / grappling, Imported open hand techniques replaced the native open hand techniques at all levels, and weapons such as swords replaced the likes of the bo for upper castes.
That leaves villagers with the bo. What Jesse described for the bo was more fluid than kata, though there are some implicitly embedded, so if it's fluid, maybe it originally included transition to and perhaps encompassed open hand as well. So maybe Maeda-Ryu is Sensei Nohara's Maeda no kon and Maeda no ti?
With oral traditions, probably no way we will ever know. But we can always speculate ☺
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