Yes, but the scary part of Mythos was that it was able to chain a bunch of seemingly minor vulnerabilities into a serious exploit. "Fix this code" doesn't do that, but does allow defenders to prevent it.

If the government had experts involved in this decision at all, it's tempting to think they were on the offensive side. Those guys do have access to Mythos:

https://www.ft.com/content/d02d91b3-2636-454e-9442-dc7e69f51...