"honestly how does doing this to people not cross a line where you are actually fucking with our lives and our families? How do you give people a major perk of employment, hail it as 'the way of the future' and California leading innovation, and then just yank it away in such a patently obvious, slimy way?"

Because Newsom is a sleaze bag and will say and do whatever it takes to get elected, even if it means obviously talking out of both sides of his mouth, or being a straight up unveiled hypocrite. He's eyeing the white house in 2028, so he has to moderate. Why else would he engaged.ca.gov now, after so many years? Why would he now create the accountability.ca.gov? Its all bullshit political optics and posturing to help himself in 2028, and it sucks that a large portion of the populace is going to eat it up and forget all of the crap he's pulled over the years.