It wasnt a good product. It was constantly losing money. Maybe you mean communal workplaces were popular and people liked them, but the way adam implemented it drove them into the ground
I understand where you’re coming from. However couldn’t the even simpler explanation be that viruses frequently travel from bats to other species, this lab is in this city because there are a lot of bats with viruses there, and the thing that they are there to study ended up happening?