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Why is it unfortunate? The reason Jerome did it was he thought that the Latin translation should be directly from the Hebrew rather than being a translation from the Greek from the Hebrew (translation of a translation), which is what the prior translations were. If absolutely nothing else it's good he did so because it gives us a witness to the Hebrew text around 400 AD (even if via translation), which is useful because aside from a few small fragments, we have zero Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament between the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Masoretic Text, a gap of about a thousand years.

It's unfortunate because by the time Saint Jerome was translating the Hebrew Old Testament had been tainted with anti-Christian propaganda and it had been pared back just to fit the beliefs of rabbinic Judaism which was being formed at the time as a kind of sister religion to Christianity. a kind of vengeful not very nice sister religion.