Temu is owned by PDD aka Pinduoduo, a Chinese company with a long history of either accidentally or deliberately (“accidentally”) putting malware in their apps. Malware that tends to dial home to PLA servers for some odd reason.

E.g. something like https://krebsonsecurity.com/tag/pinduoduo/

He knows the guillotines are coming and wants to get away from that ASAP

“we can make enough money without it”