The problem is the death penalty case is aimed at the wrong target: The entire Web PKI system remains dumb and bad, and the correct answer is to dissolve the CA/B and find people with practical security experience.
[0] https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/roots.json
[1] https://www.entrust.com/company/newsroom/entrust-sells-publi...
This is probably a rough definition for "Entrust was banned from being a CA and sold the business off to a competitor". In part, because I also do not think the root programs would just allow Entrust to continue operating the same business under another brand name, unless they are even dumber than I already thought.
If anyone should be navel-gazing coming out of this incident, surely it's the trust store maintainers. If there's a big concrete improvement to be made, short of burning down the web PKI ecosystem, I'm not sure it's obvious yet.
I'm not sure there is a 3rd solution to this.