Sure, Ethereum is a great example of having provably completely misused their large budget by building an L2 roadmap that was met with heavy criticism, succumbed to bureaucracy, and went down a bad path with no one held responsible. Cosmos ecosystem had similar mistakes, and there happen to be quite a few ties to these ecosystems and ways of thinking by ZCG.
ZCG has shown the same level of failure with ZSAs. It does not matter what the justifications are. No one is to blame, and it does not mean that the people in ZCG are bad people or anything like that. They just went down the wrong path and with how much money is at stake, it is best to fix it right now, before even more money is at stake and further mistakes are made.