>>112285117They were tertiary antagonists at best who got punished for no good reason.
Gideon tried to kill people and also served Bill and tried to rape Mabel but was allowed to get off scot free and even continue being a nasty fuck.
Even Giffany, who straight up murdered her programmers, got a happy ending according to one of the journals.
Preston was at worst a greedu haughty prick but he didn't go out his way to hurt people. He was only punished because he was the closest thing on the show to Drumpf and we all know about Hirsch and his politics...