I don't know why this is difficult.
If you want to buy a $10,000,000,000 company with 10,000 staff and 1,000,000 users... yes you can bomb their PR to make the stocks go down and buy it for $7,500,000,000.
But if the bad PR caused it to now have 5,000 staff and 5,000,000 users... you actually got less users and staff per dollar.
Now I don't know what the exact calculation is, but at the very least it's a risky strategy.
Now if they want to sack most of the staff anyway and just get their hands on the IP, with a plan to rebuild users through investment, that makes much more sense.