It looks like libimobiledevice.dylib is linked against the wrong version of liblzma. It is linked against version 8.0.0, but a standard macOS install only has version 6.0.0. See the exception below from a clean macOS install. A workaround is to brew install xz, which has version 8.0.0 of liblzma.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /Users/auser/.moe/moe-sdk-1.4.0/tools/macosx/x86_64/libimobiledevice.dylib: dlopen(/Users/auser/.moe/moe-sdk-1.4.0/tools/macosx/x86_64/libimobiledevice.dylib, 1): Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/xz/lib/liblzma.5.dylib
Referenced from: /Users/auser/.moe/moe-sdk-1.4.0/tools/macosx/x86_64/libimobiledevice.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libimobiledevice.dylib requires version 8.0.0 or later, but liblzma.5.dylib provides version 6.0.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader$NativeLibrary.load(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:1941)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1824)
at java.lang.Runtime.load0(Runtime.java:809)
at java.lang.System.load(System.java:1086)
at org.moe.ios.device.launcher.Main.loadNativeLibraries(Main.java:51)
at org.moe.ios.device.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:94)
otool -L output for 1.4.0 (after brew install xz):
MacBook-Pro-4:mydir auser$ otool -L ~/.moe/moe-sdk-1.4.0/tools/macosx/x86_64/libimobiledevice.dylib
/Users/auser/.moe/moe-sdk-1.4.0/tools/macosx/x86_64/libimobiledevice.dylib:
libimobiledevice.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.11)
/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
/usr/local/opt/xz/lib/liblzma.5.dylib (compatibility version 8.0.0, current version 8.2.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1252.0.0)
otool -L output for 1.3.8:
MacBook-Pro-4:mydir auser$ otool -L ~/.moe/moe-sdk-1.3.8/tools/macosx/x86_64/libimobiledevice.dylib
/Users/auser/.moe/moe-sdk-1.3.8/tools/macosx/x86_64/libimobiledevice.dylib:
libimobiledevice.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.2.5)
/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
/usr/lib/liblzma.5.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.3.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1226.10.1)