> especially as engineers who make their living by creating intellectual property and probably wouldn’t want to see control of it seized randomly

The premise of your question seems surprising.

1. In what sense the DMA enables seizure of control of intellectual property? I haven't heard of seizure being part of this.

2. In what sense DMA does so randomly? The DMA's rules seem to be written down, not random. Where are you seeing randomness?

Also:

3. One intention of regulation is that you don't want one (or a few) entities, regardless of what they are, to gain too much power over your citizens' lives. They want power to be distributed, just like to America's 3 branches of federal government were designed to distribute power. Could you explain what specifically you find difficult to understand about people finding it immoral to give a single entity too much power?