I think the RedHat Valgrind report on 2024-03-04 made the Jia Tan team panic, since the one public rwmj stack trace pointed the finger directly at the backdoor. All it would take is someone looking closely at that failure to expose the whole operation. They fixed it on 2024-03-09, but then two weeks later distros still had not updated to the new version, and every day is another day that someone might hit the Valgrind failure and dig. I think that's why the sockpuppets came back on 2024-03-25 begging Debian to update. And then on the Debian thread there was pushback because they weren't the maintainer (except probably they were), so once Debian was updated, Jia Tan had to be the account that asked Ubuntu to update.
That seems like a breach that they went forward with the update based on some random persons request. Oh you're getting pushy? I guess we better listen to this guy.
