It relates the overall principle to a concrete example. The particular example isn't important. As you said, we can tweak the numbers to go either way. What's u

It relates the overall principle to a concrete example. The particular example isn't important. As you said, we can tweak the numbers to go either way. What's useful about it is showing an example of how the numbers could work to logically explaining Epic's decision. I find concrete examples like this really helpful for comprehension.