Alternatively, never be too quick to attribute to stupidity when there’s a strong incentive for malice to take advantage of that attribution to hide itself.
Hanlon's Razor needs a strong caveat that it should never be uncritically applied when strong financial motives are at play.
I think Hanlon's Razor became popular in earlier days of the Internet, when dumb technical decision might happen ... people are dumb. Today, with money riding on everything, the situation can be much muddier, with dumb technical decisions happening because people are greedy ... and dumb.
"It'll do a bunch of deals that'll crater the company within 3 years, but I'll cash out $700mil on the way and be long gone before everybody who stays is trying to climb out of the glowing hole in the ground..."