No it doesn’t explain it. This is legitimately a difficult target. Did you watch the talk?
The people that MS hired to make and break this were top notch, and there is definitely incentive to maintain control over a content platform. This dude has been at this for /years/. I’ve been a fly on the wall on all sides to observe this.
There has been a lot of interest in underground / pirate communities to hack this, but that’s not the only reason why people hack things.