Suing an actual company and recovering some of the judgement would surely send a stronger message.
Edit: maybe a more cynical view is that racking up default judgements is used as low-effort proof of "we're policing the system...see all of our lawsuits" if government or public pressure rises.
Sorta like weev. There are plenty of reasons to not like the guy. But that's the case that made changing the numbers in a URL a possible felony.
Anyway, once they get that first win, they pick on a slightly larger target, and cite the first win as precident.
I'd imagine if they rack up a bunch of no-shows They could change their dmca handling process. We're not honoring these without property X, because these last hundred or thousand or whatever turned out to be fake.
I guess, I'd assert google lawyers are not dumb, and they probably have a reason to start stacking "wins". But I don't know what the strategy or end goal might be. I'm just some random guy on the internet with an opinion.