There's a law, possibly international/UN or something, against making laws that retroactively criminalize stuff, so you're right, on that point.
Pretending that such things won't ever become a crime, however, when the US is at the point of criminalizing
- miscarriage
- some brain-wirings/genders
- violating christofascist supremacism
- not being a Trump-cult member
as the next few years will demonstrate,
is naive/incompetent.
Yes, criminal-law is going to be used to enforce ideological-conforming, throughout much of the West, exactly as China, Israel, Russia, etc, now "use"/abuse law.
That tipping-point has already been crossed, on this world.
Pinion seems to be the ones who are getting it right, to me:
I'd look only at bikes based on their geartrain.
( I'm sticking with derailleurs, simply because that's what I got, but .. yeah, I can really see switching & ditching the grease on the pants bullshit )