I don't see why both can't be true: Anthropic is pulling off regulatory capture and we are setting ourselves up for a massive cyber disaster.
The non-safeguarded models are out there today. You can download them for $0, spend low five figures on some hardware and you're off to the races.
Anthropic is not doing us a service by warning us, everybody that is slightly more involved in this material knows what is at stake. If this is news to you then maybe Anthropic is doing you a service but to me it makes zero difference. All I know is the cat is out of the bag and these super cynical people trying to pretend they are going to make their investors rich will use any tool in the bag to achieve their goals.