I think a software dev can be pretty not guilty if they're making positive change in the company. If everyone with a conscious quit Google, I think they'd get more evil.
Why would being problematic to honey hurt them? If anything, it'd make the other sponsors more confident in their affiliate links. They've burnt plenty of brides with Apple and Nvidia, I don't see why they would be afraid of honey.
They didn't make a video about it because they thought it was a problem for creators, not a problem for consumers. They may have communicated to creators separately to drop honey. They talked about it publicly once they found out honey was also lying to consumers about what they did.
How'd you get the hinges to be strong enough?