Sorry, I didn't know that.
Stupid.
They wanted the information and evidence to be a matter of record. It wasn’t stupid. There are many questions in those documents and the judge just passed the buck, or was gotten to by the powers that be.
On the many threads about that whole thing it was opined that the plaintiffs did not want a default judgment because that way none of the evidence or arguments would have been public record.
I’m probably not using correct legal terminology but hopefully someone else will verify, expand and edify further.