I'm not asking for the creators to get out of it scot-free, but to keep branding in the public conscience the fundamental principle that "a computer cannot make a management decision".
If the creators had shoddy practices, it should be denounced, but it has nothing to do with sending people to jail.
If a software bug makes an automated machine gun kill random people, the ones going to jail should be the ones who deployed automated machine guns, not the developers.