Strong cultural norms (e.g. hacker culture) might help for a while. But incentive structures eternally erode opposition.
It could make it easier for developers to band together and try to collectively veto things like this. But corporations with money can always buy the expertise of people, have them undermine the community, create their own parallel communities and influence public opinion and legislators.
FAANG salaries supercharge people's cognitive dissonance. They will find ways to excuse, minimize and ignore their contribution to the current situation.
Even HackerNews developed a sub-subculture of people that were constantly going on threads and calling remote attestation worries as "FUD".
It's unclear how to preserve cultural norms that stand in the way of market dominance. The only thing I can think of is having competing interests in the market. But whenever these align -- hell breaks loose.