This is a poor take (making a connection between criticizing bad work culture and malicious outside leaks) from an outrage salesman who's moved deeeep down the rabbit hole to propagating low-info/vapid takes. Leaks like this don't benefit workers, and the leak had no connection to the bad working conditions.
Even something as simple as Jim effectively taking rumors at face value (out of convenience to his point), but using "allegedly" to hand-wave evidence to the contrary from both (1) official statements and (2) independent reporting. The joke used to be his style mocked the excesses of UK/British tabloid types, but it just feels like he embodies it now.
Not just this, but the original rumour wasn't that the leaker stole and shared the content because of the working conditions, but because they were unpaid, something that hasn't historically been reported with Sony or ND. Infact, ND is actually known for paying well, and during this Covid-19 situation they actually paid staff extra.
Jim has essentially added in his own meta narrative to the disgruntled employee thing (to be fair, so did countless others), to try and make his preferred argument stick.
In a way, I'm glad he's grilling ND for crunch, but I just think it's dangerous and somewhat malicious to link or justify it visa the moral credibility of huge leaks, especially when the latter harms and hurts the devs in question themselves.
