> if the company had any interest in making things better the regulator would never have needed to get involved in the first place.
Kind of precludes alternate motives, like "the regulator is captured by existing interests and is prosecuting the company despite the company's sincere intention to make things better".
You are taking that phrase out of the context of the sentence it is in, which obscures the meaning, apparently for the sole purpose of having someone to debate with about something that is completely irrelevant to both the comment you have extracted it from and the issue that comment is addressing.
