One of the reasons why I'm careful to get involved with trillion dollar companies. A job there may be gainful and prestigeful, but getting stomped into the mud by an army of ill willing lawyers with infinitely deep pockets over any sort of workplace invention issue is bound to be a road to ruin.
I think different people have different moral intuitions regarding that. Some might consider that trying to keep trade secrets is a zero-sum or maybe even a negative sum game, from the perspective of society.
Assuming you don't identify with Uber or Google, you might not assign any monetary value to this episode, and therefore there could be cognitive dissonance at the weight of "$180 million" and actions taken proportional to that.
