[BoorishBears]

I'd say just like in real life, stupid criminals exist. If criminal A says to criminal B "I'll sell you a solution that encrypts their files and I'll host the decryptor for 5$ a month" I can totally see a dumb criminal B being fully willing to rely on the reputation of ransomware as working to not pay that 5$ a month.

To a certain criminal any effort no matter how miniscule at all in actually providing a way to decrypt the files is useless, and I think with the reputation that's spread about ransomware we're at a point where more scammers will start to piggyback on reputation and stop following through