[legitster]

I think the proper framing here is that this is a (failed) attempt to limit abuse of the system.

It's still bad, but I would rather work on the assumption that this is merely incompetence rather than malice.

[turtledove]

At this point, not fixing it is indistinguishable from malice. We've known for at least a generation the side effects of means testing. Keeping them around is cruelty.