It seems like you are contorting the blame to "well you should just do more work!" Bureaucratic regulations have costs in implementation, enforcement and non-c

It seems like you are contorting the blame to "well you should just do more work!" Bureaucratic regulations have costs in implementation, enforcement and non-compliance. Those costs are naturally easy for corporations to absorb because they can hire people to do it full time or whatever the case may be. Maybe several hours or $1000 for a lawyer or whatever to review some regulation are a bridge too far for someone already devoting time and dealing with whatever negatives the side project is coupled with like less free time, negative users/customers/competition, and other opportunity cost. So yes, taking on new and unknown (to the creator) legal liability from some regulation is a great reason to shut down a side project.