"Restored" is not really the word. They got robbed. Their parent and VC stepped in to bandaid over the terrible terrible press by throwing money at the problem

"Restored" is not really the word. They got robbed. Their parent and VC stepped in to bandaid over the terrible terrible press by throwing money at the problem in a bid to rebuy trust. I've started asking people explicitly: how can anyone who has ever programmed professionally, entrust themselves to someone's program? The interesting lemma is, don't we do that all day? To which the obvious rejoinder is, yes, but when we do so, it is almost always in contexts in which litigation and consumer action and introduced a massive obligation of transparency, best practices, liability, insurance, and other regulatory oversight and burdens. Which still fails, e.g. when Boeing bug kill planeloads. The wild west of this "smart contract" world has almost none of that. Sadly the answer to the rhetorical "what are people thinking!?" is no mystery. Those that are, are mostly on the side of the grift.