We don't give anyone a free pass, we have a regulator tasked with ensuring banks don't fail on behalf of depositors.
These regulators are the ones driving the market to take these stupid risks, they slowly push out anyone who tries to make sane decisions by giving handouts to people who insist on setting their own money on fire. They're systemically removing the major incentives for people to think before acting.
There is an easy, sustainable path to a robust system here that creates wealth - stop making prudent investors pay for the reckless risk takers. That means we don't just pay out people who give no thought at all to what their money is funding.
Regulatory capture is more dangerous than no regulations because of naive people who dont see the graft despite it getting worse every year, decade after decade.