I appreciate that and honestly I never doubt the employees, or perhaps even the founders. When looking into the future, Its the investors that are not to be trusted and they call the shots commensurate to their ownership stake - which is again opaque to us in the case of pydantic.

And taking this 1 step further, its not that investors are evil people who want to bad things, but its their explicit job to make returns on their investment - its the basic mechanisms of idiom "show me an incentive and i'll show you the outcome"