the first is the FAGMANesque companies/unicorns using it to poach quality talent from pretty much wherever they want. for these companies the 100k fee is annoying but also somewhat of a moat -- it's no big deal for google or openai or whatever to pay it when the positions they're trying to fill are high compensation to begin with. this is my guess as to why you haven't seen much in the way of public opposition from major tech cos

the second, and increasingly pervasive over the past 10-15 years especially, are the Indian "tech consultant" mills like Tata Consultancy which bring h1bs in by the thousands and pay them something close to the minimum just to write the most basic grunt code possible. I assume this is what the fee is trying to kill because it basically shoots their business model right in the face. and for good reason, these companies contribute absolutely nothing to tech as a whole and the jobs could just as well be filled by your median american FartAppCamp grad.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5779079&forum_id=2"#49294411)