Given the admin's frequent use of carrot-stick incentives to achieve goals, I'd give fair odds to revised policy should affected parties bend knees sufficiently.

The fact that this consideration applies to any policy / enforcement / regulatory position the US government takes for the next four years, domestic or foreign, is of course its own immense problem.

Was the TikTok 180 unlikely too?

I have a personal conspiracy theory it's specifically because these things anger people. Once everyone is riled up, the less scrupulous among those seeking power can claim without any challenge whatsoever from the media they are the only people capable of making things better. And a good chunk of the electorate seems to buy it, wholesale.