Its not clear to me that shutting company 1 and then shutting company 2 later in time is easer than shutting both companies at the same time in the future. I dont really wanna argue for any conclusion though.
Some “intuition pump” of where this pattern dosent hold: if you want to stop 2 snowballs from rolling down the hill stopping only 1 will make the other grow faster and you wont be able to stop it at all. Snowballs collide with eachother and slow themselves down.
Maybe analogy might be developed somehow like this: all competitors live in the same city. Inside the same walls. It`s just they try to pull horses in different districts.