Because this is the Internet and the angry mob often doesn't understand how the real world works, and the cognitive load of dealing with that angry mob when said things don't go the way they've naively imagined it _must_ is exhausting.

I'd imagine that later saying your license was denied would direct the internet mob in your favour, not against you.

That would work on the hypothesis that the internet mob is a rationale agent. That may not be so.

We can certainly agree to disagree! ;-)