Other reports state the Tea backend was Vibe Coded: https://www.ainvest.com/news/tea-app-data-breach-exposes-72-000-users-ai-generated-code-security-lapse-2507/

They're also not using requests very efficiently, so who knows.

There's nothing wrong with eating a banana with a knife and fork, either.

Except living with the shame.

An infinite loop used to be such a rank code smell back when I was a junior, specifically because I was a noob and made giant loops like 50 lines long and invariably didn't plan the exit condition right, and then my computer would lock up and I would have to hard power cycle.

But yeah, now it's it's a totally acceptable little pattern imho.