A crime is any action that violates a law. If the law says it’s illegal to pick your nose, then mining gold makes you a criminal.

Law is a human invention. It’s not discovered like mathematics, it’s created. Corner cases often make no sense and are simply not enforced. If they were, we’d see a lot of jury nullification in the long run.

Sometimes the value add is security, sometimes scaling or uptime. Enterprise considerations aren’t necessarily the same as for individual consumers.

Sometimes it’s just a dogshit product though, and the sales team pulled the wool over some execs eyes.