They’re just excited because it’s kind of like they released Skyrim again and they haven’t had their fix in a while.

Maybe the reality is that 80-90% of their programmers actively use tools like Github Copilot and the CEO got really excited about what that might mean. I mean, how could he possibly measure this?

What makes you think they’re not going to do something worse in the future? Knowingly pointing people towards an abusive company is signaling to that company that this is fine and we’re willing to bend over further.