Glad they’re taking off the gloves a little, but it’s always been a non-option to just make our lives significantly and irrevocably better like M4A or the PRO act and although they’re good at trying and failing, they never talk about the consequences as dire as they actually are with few exceptions.
It didn’t work for Thao, he actually got much stricter sentencing because he plead innocent and continued to deny wrongdoing up until the end.