Villains? Where is the malicious intent? They tried to innovate on a design and it failed. Things like this happen all the time. Even Satoshi had an inflation bug in the bitcoin protocol.

Blaming the state for Boeing’s design choices is a stretch. Aviation is a tough business with very low profit margin. But yet they brought the cost down to fly to where your normal middle class family can take 2 to 3 flights a year. The death rate for flying in a Boeing plane is near negligible.

Overall regulation is in place to protect people. Just like anything in life we have good regulation and bad regulation and overall enforcement of those regulations. Mind you if you hate it nothing is stopping you from flying with countries with lackluster regulations.