This is all true, and I suppose I participated in a signed update mechanism that I knew the (corporate) end user probably wasn't going to be given the keys to. But, I think there's a difference between this and deliberately going to work on a system that's clearly just top-down designed for something low.

For example, I don't think there's anyone in the (large!) fixed-odds betting terminal industry that can honestly say their work is a good thing for the end users.