Wow. What a great post, I have to mention due to my English skills that no irony intended, this needs to be run in a text-to-speech program and load when the thread is opened. As for the 'not worth the risk bit', how do you practically respond to investors demands if by naturally increasing the profit margin is simply not possible due to countless factors and a handful of releases intended to become a hit are yet to appear?
The only reason I play, and I do it for 15 years +/- 2 on and off, is because I started with the 'innocent' coin pushers in my childhood that were aimed at children, from the odd coin with value next to nothing to the successful chance of earning 10 coins, hopefully in a single fall, with value of a tiny object of choice, the great toys were never for sale with real cash but with the machine coins, forcing one to play and accumulate coins to get that particular lovely toy. Then I started to look after patterns and break the machine to take out as much coins as possible, to hunt for machines laying in wait spectating newbies. When they started to insert gold plated and silver rings in the machine you know where you would find me haha. Having been through that the next natural expansion with the adulthood was the standing and online casinos. The coin pushers were also tampered with, changes in the speed of the mechanism based on the weight of the 'belly' on which the coins stood, a visible house edge by manually arranging the valuable items like there were about to come, spending double their value to get them etc.
You say that this business is all about trust. Trust is being earned and Trancemonkey attempts? to wash the mud off how the slots really works are great to a certain extent, because some questions can't be answered solely by words that we have to believe because is a signed by an official. Proof in this case is suitable when something from the back end is shown, with head and tail exposed, this is how it looks like, these are the protections against counterfeiting, against cheating if any, this is how it works. For the lack of an actual eye-palpable proof we have to resort to our imagination. I'm not a basic user nor advanced, and I struggle to understand some worded suppositions in the absence of an accompanying proof, to evolve from suppositions to facts ala bone needs to have enough meat on it to be worth cooking(remember not from the supermarket though Lmao).
In a word: Volkswagen
Was it worth? Obviously not. Worth a try? 7 years of safe run. Investors were satisfied, unprecedented expansion and sales. They didn't think at their value and how someone will spill the bean if they made it isolated enough. And were not talking about here a software that is always is a control room with the benefit of immediate protection, but freely handed to the public to use and possibly dissect, which is what has happened. Car industry stringent regulation was corruptible, in places, partly because who is paying the regulators? The industry they are supposed to control, making them unfit for purpose by definition. Telling me that the casino inspectors that reside on safe haven islands rigorously check the colossus goats that provide a good chunk of said islands economies... I mean you can tell me, you told me already about tinfoil hattery when I questioned the inspectors possible collusion, I can safely call you an idealist or you want to believe but choose to turn the head away like is not happening, perfectly acceptable though.