I think it can be read more charitably, the last bit includes "with positive intentions", which does act to indicate the outcome is bad, even though no one involved necessarily intends to make a scam-machine.

The direction I pick up from the piece is "Here's why this system is weird, that has some unfortunate outcomes, but that's the way it is" without any explicit call for action. If anything, it seems to accept the status quo as too difficult to change, while pointing out negative side-effects there.