If you believe they really did it for security, I have a very nice bridge to sell you for an extremely low price ...

Look, tech companies lie all the time to make their bad decisions sound less bad. Simple example: almost every "AI made us more efficient" announcement is really just a company making (unpopular) layoffs, but trying to brand them as being part of an "efficiency effort".

I'd bet $100 this company just wants to go closed source for business reasons, and (just like with the layoffs masquerading as "AI efficiency") AI is being used as the scapegoat.

Who says I believe it? ;)

I'm just choosing to focus on the substance of the argument itself, which I think is risible regardless of who makes it and why.