As dubious as it is, if the claim of Huang manufacturing a shortage is true then revenue was not maximized.

A shortage occurs when demand exceeds supply. In a normally functioning market price rises to see demand back away until demand meets supply. In order for demand to continue to exceed supply, a shortage, you must have a situation where price is prevented from rising, which, if Huang was behind it, means that Huang was purposefully rejecting better offers to keep the price below the market value. Thus revenue was artificially capped below what could have been.