OK, so I'm calling the next narrative push is that Cyber Ninjas hacked the machines. That will explain, to the normies, why the audit showed fraud occurred.
Other possibility is Dominion is now afraid good guys reverse-engineered hardware/software, and/or have developed bots to track algorithm sequence/traffic in real time during future elections.
Timing of announcement coincides with voting machine "quirks" reported in recent primary, but I don't know if those were Dominion machines. Have to look at a scenario where reporting of "quirks" tipped off Dominion that the good guys are up tho their tricks. The tip off was done accidentally, on purpose.
This, then, would "circle back" (yeah, I know) to Hobbs trying to set up a machines were OK before Cyber Ninjas got them defense.