I think this pretty much nails it. Some Curacao operators are unadulterated crap and deserve all the scorn they rightly receive. Others are some of the best and most trusted operators that we've worked with in the 20 years that Bryan and I have been in the business.
Clearly it's the operators that matter, the licensing jurisdiction itself is virtually a non-entity. This is not news. It wasn't too many years ago when that same observation applied to the industry as a whole. Curacao just happens to be a bit of a dinosaur in that it hasn't evolved (much) with the times.
As to the OP's crusade that Curacao licenses "don't exist" I think I'd rather have someone who knows what they are talking about comment on that. Frankly the legalese of it isn't of particular interest to us because, as indicated above, until relatively recently Curacao was not significantly different than anywhere else. The legal status of a good many licensing jurisdictions is a matter of debate, it often depends who you talk to.
So yes, today Curacao is a feeble excuse for a licensing jurisdiction, but so is Panama and Antigua and Costa Rica and ... etc, etc, the list goes on. TBH Gibraltar, for instance, isn't a whole lot better IMO -- it was a few years ago but that was then and this is now -- in that players get treated as Gib sees fit and there is nothing in place to allow players to appeal their decisions or seek arbitration. We could continue in this vein for quite some time.
The bottom line is that decent licensing jurisdictions -- meaning those backed by and accountable to the laws of the state, with proper regulatory oversight, good principles of operation and/or codes of conduct for their licensees, and a meaningful appeals and arbitration process -- are very much rarer than most people realize.