I just tell to avoid explaining and spit out code, 60% of the times I have to correct it or provide detailed instructions, after some cursing and manual fixing, something useful remains.
I was one of the affected customers, guy offered me 2 years subscription at cost zero, it's something, but I will never trust this company again, neither lifetime subscriptions.
Same with web hosting, nice 30 bucks deal some years ago, ended this year, saying they cannoy support the costs anymore, wow, who would guess that a business is not profitable when you give stuff away.
Embedded storage was actually very common some decades ago, remember seeing it in a lot of devices, mostly 3G USB Modems, there was even a AT command to enable/disable it.
Seems that the origin of the "chinese hack" theory can be just resumed to: younger people not being used to this kind of old stuff.