Consider the Volkswagen scandal where code was written that fudged the results when in an emissions testing environment. The only person to see major punishmen

Consider the Volkswagen scandal where code was written that fudged the results when in an emissions testing environment. The only person to see major punishment for that was the software dev that wrote the code, but that decision to write that code involved far more people up the chain. THEY should be held accountable in some way or else nothing prevents them from using some other poor dev as a scapegoat.