Yeah… if one looks at this from the ordinary, non legal perspective, it would make sense that the amount of funding involved would dictate the bar for the approval, but if you look at this from the legal side, they can not employ such approach, since it would be in a direct contradiction with the whole idea of the Exceptional Hardship.
Whether they approach this with legal mindset is another question that I dont think we can answer.
However, I would refrain from making statements with such high confidence like above 🙂