Also, alternatives to this are not being mentions. There is a company called Virta Health that has amazing rates of remission for Type 2 Diabetes. Dr. Jason Fung has books and videos on it.
The thing I worry about is that many people on things like this don’t seem to be really learning new habits and to live and eat a new way. So, when they go off the drug, for one reason or another, it seems many will eventually just wind up where they started.