Yeah, it's like an NIL situation. We're debating how many millions these top athletes get at premiere programs, which is not nothing...but 80% of NCAA (I, II, & III) players don't get anything but maybe some comped meals at a public appearance.
80% of bails are set for low level drug and non-violent offenders, and they're often set intentionally as cost prohibitive to keep jails full. But yeah, the system also does keep legit bad guys who can do some real harm inside. We've all watched courtroom dramas, "Your honor, we recommend bail be set at XYZ because the defendant is a flight risk or can still go back out and harm others or run his drug network or whatever..." In Trump's case, he's literally the poster child for a flight risk. Plane, security detail that would enable him safe passage, some 'excuse' that he had to use his past president gravitas on a humanitarian mission abroad ("Your honor, I had to go help the families of victims in Israel! This is New York, think of the Jews!"), and can then still stir up theories among the stupids that he's now running a shadow government in exile from Qatar or Jordan or Venezuela. Never mind his patently obvious solvency issues in the event of default.