it's hard to understand the granparent's statement actually.

It seems to me it would make sense if it were:

it would pack more punch if ASML WAS the only go-to example...

Is that what it's supposed to be? And then, since it isn't the only go-to example it must follow that the example packs little punch.

If it is supposed to be that perhaps the person you are responding to misunderstood and thought it actually meant exactly what it said, which after all was that ASML IS the only go-to example. And thinking what it seemed to be saying was actually what was meant they responded to that.

However I think you and I agree that what was actually meant was a sarcastic observation that hey, ASML is not the only go-to example European company thus this carries a reasonable amount of punch, it was just poorly phrased.