No insult taken. That is a version held by many.
The same kind of thing killed the British motor industry and severely damaged the US motor industry. People kept paying for garbage, then wondered why they got more garbage. And then bought another garbage car from the same people in the hopes that somehow it would be different. This still afflicts the US car industry even today.
If fans in general had wanted to keep this sort of thing from happening, they should have stopped watching and financially supporting football when the NFL started allowing felons to play and let corruption begin creeping in. But nooooooo, gotta have “muh football” so the money kept pouring in to the NFL with the unspoken reinforcement that this was the right course of action. The Left literally had nothing to do with it when this happened and they only took slight advantage of the decay already well in progress.
Worth noting that in video games/e-sports, when this sort of thing starts happening in one game/series, generally all the fans stop watching and go to another series. The first series then either cleans up their acts or it collapses.