Why do you think only one person designed this? Why do you think the person who designed this is an engineer? Even small apps have dozens of developers. I'm s

Why do you think only one person designed this? Why do you think the person who designed this is an engineer? Even small apps have dozens of developers. I'm sure this one had many more than that. Is the problem the implementation of popup, the content, or something else? If this was a system that recommended treatments based on symptom, is the guilty party the person who wrote the query, "SELECT treatment FROM symptom_treatments WHERE symptom_id = ?" Or the person who put the result of that query onto a page? Or is it the person(s) who suggested opioid as a treatment for symptom_id 7? I feel like you're making the problem comically simple to justify getting on your ethical high horse. Yeah, a group of people decided to pull this shit, but there's a very small chance that this decision was made by one engineer that frequents HN. Most likely it was made by senior executives who passed down bits and pieces to various teams to get the outcome they wanted.