No-one should "shame" anyone else.
I'd been getting treated for chronic pain for over 12 years and it was never presented as an option. They only brought up the Stimulators because of the "opiod crisis" and as you said, their fear of the DEA for prescribing it.

I never heard of the pain pump until a friend of mine who was an engineer for 15 years for Medtronic developing the pain pump brought it up.
When I asked my pain clinic they said - "yes, that might be a really good fit for my pain issue". What??!!??!! They could not come up with it themselves? they even implant them daily in their surgery center, but they somehow never even informed me that it was an thing.

The one thing (good and bad) about all these pumps and stimulators is that they are targeted so if you can get them to work on you it is over a limited area. Since my chronic pain is all over my body, I have to pick the area that is worst and basically just suffer with the rest.
Whereas, the oral opiods would treat all of the pain at once.