TaylorMade was a massive company when PE entered the picture. This is way different than entering a smallish company like LAB or Swag Golf. There’s not a single person that likes what happened to Swag after PE made a huge investment in them.
It’s fully legal for tournament play to not have weights in the putter. As long as there isn’t a hole that goes inside the head. ie: if you remove the weight on a driver you still need to have a screw that covers the hole that goes into the driver head.