And the responsibility - its going to stain the resumes of the higher management of the victim company that they had a good company and it deteriorated under their management.

Fuck, seems like the only way to guard against these takeover-enshittify attacks is to never go public or take anybody elses money - and in that case they’ll just fuck your competitor, use them to undercut you and take your clients and run you out of business, and then run THEM to the ground.