Part of the problem with the laundry pod things is that they're so much more concentrated than regular detergents. With regular detergent people can spit it out before it causes really major damage, but it's too late if you have a laundry pod in your mouth.
Between the number of children accidentally eating them, the number of adults with dementia eating them, and teens eating them for memes, I do kind of wonder how long it's gonna be before they're just outlawed