I guess that makes sense. In our case I think it was more trying to hide that they'd made something they couldn't control as well as they'd like.

[She doesn't know the full details and she doesn't care to, but it's been clear enough over the years what the main problem Genomex has had with New Mutants has been, at least as far as she's concerned.]

Still, if things turned that quickly then people were looking for an excuse all along. At least, that's what I tend to find.