Executives should be held personally responsible for kinds of things that low-level employees aren't. That's why executives get paid so much more.
Do you want golden parachutes?
This is how you get these.
I reject these defeatist attitudes and question the engineering skills of anyone who thinks this way.
It is always better to try something. Human created systems are inherently problematic and do not fix themselves.
The dream is to engineer a system that does not have faults.
Some exceptions are perhaps Valve. Most other companies try to make a change at the margins and even that is heralded as a great innovation but generally fails to get adopted widely.
So why not speed up the process and at least cut the suffering from thousands of lives and skip the step when those risk-takers inevitably fuck up and overhire? Let all companies be boring cash cows after the initial stage, might even improve innovation from smaller players.
I vote for punish the CEOs.