Not only this, but the more successful you become at serving ads the more engineers you create that will passionately work against you.

There's an old saying:

  How do you create a terrorist?
  You kill his brother.

I think there's something to learn from that here.

For every [highly paid and incentivized] engineer creating new and novel ways to serve ads, there are 100 [part-time volunteer loosely-organized] engineers who hate ads

I wish the ad/adblocking balance were as lopsided as you describe, but there are a lot of things working in ads favor (encryption, locked hardware, force of law, etc.)