Morality has nothing to do with it. If consulting advice literally bankrupts your company, the advice is trash, full stop.

No, the advice Purdue asked for bankrupted the company.

Just like how asking a programmer to build a garbage program doesn’t mean the programmer is trash, it just means the specs are.

Programmers who build garbage are part of the problem, no?

Not if they build garbage well, the quality of the code and the quality of the product are independent.

But isn't building garbage a problem? What's the point of automatic garbage?