I was under the impression that tuya is moving from esp8266 to rtl8710 for their IoT ecosystem (which in turn includes many third parties, who buy their firmwar

I was under the impression that tuya is moving from esp8266 to rtl8710 for their IoT ecosystem (which in turn includes many third parties, who buy their firmware + smartphone apps + cloud infrastructure from them). This primarily affects those who wish to flash tasmota on e.g. their wifi-controllable sockets.