There could be situations where this does not work accurately and that's when problems occur. If you watch closely you can even see it sometimes in this video.
Perhaps the hope, on the part of whichever government officials I assume have been asking the media and lawyers involved to hold back this information, is that a story deeply embarrassing to Musk will discourage more dupes from putting down Model Y deposits and becoming unsecured Tesla creditors. Elon Musk ran the company to the verge of bankruptcy on customer deposits once before already.
There could be situations where this does not work accurately and that's when problems occur. If you watch closely you can even see it sometimes in this video.