No. I'd say the technical difficulty is, in fact, the point. The feral government is attempting to get Apple to subvert their own designs, when it is not even entirely sure that it is even possible for them to do so.
They are using it as an excuse to give them global access to any iPhone. If they want it so bad, they can figure it out themselves. Frankly, if they'd actually done thisir jobs, the terrorists in question wouldn't have even been in the country to commit their crimes. So now the feral government is attempting to leverage their previous failure as a wedge to open up more avenues to invade the privacy of Americans. It must be great to have a heads I win/tails you lose job.
Why doesn’t Apple then just do it themselves and give the terrorist info to the FBI then and that way we will know who or if there are more terrorists here?