multi-pronged

The issue is extremely complex and multi-pronged.

Think of a multi-pronged approach (coupons, promotions, blog posts, etc) each towards a singular splashy event.

A multi-pronged attack to improve lives, and to give them the tools to improve their own.

Perhaps a multi-pronged separation-of-powers approach, but that hasn't worked out in practice, either.

SaaS is just another facet of this multi-pronged attack on the user.

Treating either depression or anxiety seems to require a multi-pronged approach.

Instead of complaining about the weaknesses in the bill, we should view this as a facet of a multi-pronged effort to maintain privacy.

Especially since the design discipline is so multi-pronged.

If I were the owners I would do a multi-pronged approach.

It's OK to use a multi-pronged solution.

I think a multi-pronged approach is necessary.

But I have there a multi-pronged argument.

What scientist would waste time writing an article entitled “The Benefits of Multi-Pronged Plugs for Hearing Aids”?

Not only would that be a pretty poor multi-pronged strategy, it still has absolutely nothing to do with "embrace, extend, and extinguish", as the parent pointed out.

The doctrine has been called "penetrating targets' defences" or PTD: that's also the name of their budget/office/department/contracting scheme which is broadly equivalent to NSA's Special Source Operations/Targeted Access Operations, only more aggressive and multi-pronged.

Instead of complaining about the weaknesses in the bill, we should view this as a facet of a multi-pronged effort to maintain privacy." That's the answer to your question of why they claim it's not merely cosmetic.