You didn't in my view demonstrate that it led to a worse overall outcome. I suggest at least knowledge was disclosed to the public. Who knows, maybe because of the patent the original inventor got additional development money, or even quit an expensive project that would have been too far before it's time to succeed. Given the absurdly high failure rates in innovation it's not as though inventors have wonderful forsight about invention quality until they start to put themselves out there - through information sharing or product release.