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just theorycrafting a little here, from it being uhh fucking unhinged to sit on the RCE vulnerability that broke every install of your software all at once for 2 years until some crypto scammer leaked an exploit for it, because the fix was just too complicated to be worth it

so instead they did 13kloc while everything was on fire

then again, the LLM-free answer might be even funnier: https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01M5FM0J5GRG1Z5BDGKR6VE2DC

instead of gradually fixing this issue when it was first reported, they had to do a megapatch