imagine you're Joe Normie There's a machette company that has a mechanism where they get $1 every time you hit something with the machette you bought from them. the government says "we have this device you can add to the blade where if it hits a tree, you still get $1, but if it hits flesh, the blade goes dull and you get $0". please install it. machette company declines. a couple people get attacked and killed with machettes, the knife company makes some money. in court, the gov't says, "look at this, Joe Normie, we asked them to install this device which would have kept those people safe. they didn't install it, those people are dead AND they made a profit on the act!" Joe is siding with the prosecutors before the machette company even draws breath to explain how such a device would backfire when trying to defend oneself against wild boars in the jungle, not to mention make the cost of machette production prohibitive and deprive the world of effective brush clearing devices. point is, this is all hard enough to win public opinion on in the best case. it's nearly impossible when enormous profits are involved.

My main gripe with your angle and others who take up a similar one is, "punished just for writing code...". I wish it WERE true that they "just wrote code". more (normal-er) people would be on board with the outrage IF they "just wrote code". Next time someone gets unfairly prosecuted like this, I hope they will have "just written code". Someone seeing the "they just wrote code" message, and then digging deeper and finding out they "also made $6M" makes whoever said "they just wrote code" seem disingenuous, not credible, and like they might be papering over other important details as well. Keep your credibility up in the eyes of onlookers by telling the whole story. It becomes easier to tell the whole story when there isn't $6M hiding in the plot.