When you are educating a child, you are not focusing on making the child super-resilient to hypnosis. You are simply socializing the child, teaching the child to read, write. The knowledge, need and techniques to avoid being hypnotized don’t need a special focus.
They opened up 3rd-party API access. They clearly do not view this as a blocker whatever their declared goals are.
> Unfortunately it went viral, and this caused a rush to product.
They encouraged it to go viral. This is not a thing that was thrust upon them against their will. They signed a deal with Microsoft to turn this into a search engine and to allow it to start operating on untrusted 3rd-party text. Nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to do that. They made that choice.
Unfortunately it went viral, and this caused a rush to product. But you can't say they shrugged or that people aren't earnestly working on Alignment.