I think of it more as a parable about how effective 'tying yourself to the mast' actually is

The founders of OpenAI naively^ thought "this will make sure that we don't have too much power if we succeed"

But it didn't work. What lesson should we learn?^^

^ please grant this for the sake of argument

^^ I have other models that I prefer to explain what happened, but I think this one is the most interesting