Just reading another excellent book by David Hill, this one is about the Shoreham crash and subsequent AAIB investigation and CPS prosecution.
Airworthiness of an aircraft has to be owned and when people (including regulators) don't do their jobs properly in order to keep or get something flying that probably shouldn't be because of short cuts taken - the embarrassment at the subsequent Inquiry(ies) court case(s) etc leaves people scratching their heads and wondering how it could have been allowed to happen.
People will queue up to blame the pilot who had his hands on the controls at the time of the accident/incident but forensic examination will show lots of causal factors that were the responsibility of the manufacturers and the regulators.
Perhaps Jason Hill failing to deliver will be the safest outcome for all.