Unpopular opinion time. A few issues I have with what you are saying, almost every major company has majority ownership from institutional investors. Also the shareholders did not make money. The financial sector never fully recovered from 2008 and wall street still gives a lower valuation from the earnings of companies in the sector.(see chart for XLF and compare that to literally any other sector to see what I mean)

The public almost universally agrees that bailing out the banks was a bad thing and that is frustrating to me because I feel like people would feel different if they better understood just how critical it was for the worlds economy that we prevented a disastrous liquidity crisis. A lot more than our retirement was at stake.