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I think that this is in combination of what Porsche felt was worth the investment and the fact that VAG want to be seen as saving face/saving profits. Spending F1-like money for little in return isn't going to look good, especially when your company's parent company is getting sued over dieselgate and might get sued by the German Government and the EU over an anti-trust/anti-competiton cartel. The latter point being basically IMO the EU and Germany not being able to sue Volkswagen Group or anyone else directly over dieselgate since they didn't technically break any laws at the time due to EU emissions testing loopholes.
This reeks of what the FBI did with Al Capone. They and the state of Illinois couldn't make murder, racketeering, and bootlegging illegal liquor charges stick, so they got him on tax fraud/tax evasion. It was the only thing they could pin on him.
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