Acosta's Resignation May Result in More Losses for Prosecutors

I suspected as much, the plea was due to poor evidence and low chance  of courtroom success.
Lawyers for the government must be trusted to make value judgements every day, judgements based on knowledge that that they know better than everyone but the accused. We have to trust that they are good stewards of the governments resources.
Being a Trump appointment, the press jumped all over the manufactured issue, like sharks on blood in the water.

Acosta's Resignation May Result in More Losses for Prosecutors: Experienced lawyers with whom I have discussed the case -- both prosecutors and defense attorneys -- worry that the thumb of media and political pressure will be placed on the scales of justice when it comes to the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

This is no more than armchair quarterbacking, by children with pencils, than a decade after the game.
The current state of things, measurement and perspective are absent.
There is only hatred and opportunity to impugn.