Help me understand the thinking.

>> Probably less about tax revenue and more about the executive branch squeezing tech companies to assert influence.

The case existed and presumably had the same lawyers all the while. How, then, can the case become less about tax revenue?

You may say that there are ulterior motives, but, at the most, one can say that additional concerns have complicated the tax revenue concern. We're well into fascist times, but the OP comment simply ignores the facts.