Surely they didn't mess up so badly that you can just contract out the modifications. Why not just require that the code is available, period? The problem that

Surely they didn't mess up so badly that you can just contract out the modifications. Why not just require that the code is available, period? The problem that AGPL tries to fix is quite tricky though, since AFAIK you can do whatever you want with GPL code, unless you want to publish anything. And SaaS is not technically publishing the code but only its behaviour (even though for all intents and purposes this is the same as an obfuscated binary, especially in places where deobfuscation is illegal).