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it would have reduced expenses and helped sustainability.

To the extent that there wasn't overlap, it would have retained competition.

When the merger was turned down because of the huge amount of competition that disallowing it would help maintain (that's deeply sarcastic, by the way) it was pointed out that the result of this would inevitably be Spirit's complete demise. And that it's departure from the market would reduce competition more than the merger would have. But disallowing the merger also preserved jobs, not a small bit of the thinking. (Of course, the shutting down ended jobs *and* put a lot of passengers in a pickle, but while predictable and entailed, it's certainly not a consequence of stopping what would probably have been a sounder outcome. I guess.)

If your default 'setting' is 'mergers, bad' then it's hard to get past that setting default to see further down the road, say, a business default.