Although, now that I think of it, Bernie's plan for a doomed M4A legislative push in the first week of his Presidency that inevitably gets obliterated in a floor vote may actually harm the chances for extracting maximalist concessions in a follow-up negotiation. In that case, you've shown the squishes and oppositional forces that there is no legitimate fear of M4A, exposing the supposed big stick to actually be a small twig, essentially calling his own bluff. Whereas Warren's position of huge healthcare expansion with the threat of full, immediate M4A looming in the background of negotiations, hanging like a sword of Damocles over the squishes and oppositional forces, might actually force more concessions out of them. She retains the threat. That's what the Obamacare negotiations were missing. Obamacare (w/ public option) was the leftmost position because there was no substantial push for M4A framing the debate. It's like why Republicans wanted a show vote on the GND and AOC encouraged Dem Senators to not vote for it.
Could be wrong though, I'm just trying to game this out.