Does it matter what they thought? Anthropic held to a set of T&Cs in a way that had the Pentagon making threats to render Anthropic a supply chain risk, Anthropic either didn't care or thought it was a bluff, it wasn't a bluff and they're now suing over being called a supply chain risk.
It would have been a really weird hill to risk dying on if they didn't actually care. (Not that "this is weird" is still enough by itself to reach any conclusions, given that a lot of newsworthy decision making in the world right now is of a quality that it seems to have been done by a LLM, perhaps with as much human involvement as changing a font or typing "continue").