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Nothing of that changes their desire to avoid selling to the worst abuser. What circumstances can do is making them sell despite that despite.

That's why it's so important to have a clean handover way that does not involve handing over credentials: it allows circumstantial sellers to pick a least bad buyer, if it exists. The more visible the existence of a clean path (as in "advertised in the UI vs getting someone at Google on the phone") is the more difficult it becomes to pretend that the shady path is clean. There might even be some "conscience arbitrage", perhaps unintended: buyers who buy through regular handover mechanism, with a believable story of confidence in being able to make clean money (which they may or may not believe themselves), but who then sell dirty. Less money for the original dev, true, but at least there's one handover on record, eroding trust.