But even then, the twist was that even if the monster is real, the bad guys were still mundane crooks.

That’s a “converter” in the same way an ejection seat is “a chair”.

It even kinda makes sense. If a company C-levels can get away with what’s essentially several thousand counts of manslaughter because it wasn’t any one person, it’s this fictional legal entity that doesn’t really exist and the government just gives it millions whenever it’s in trouble - why don’t we all do it?