They're not fighting the jailbreakers, per se.
What they're doing is closing the security holes that allow exploits like jailbreaking.
This is a sensible and desirable thing to do.
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These 'security holes' are not typically security holes which let people do things with the device without authorisation from the device's owner; instead, they prevent authorised people (by the person with legal authority over the device, i.e. the owner) from doing things, so are better termed a deficiency in an anti-feature rather than a security hole.
Fixing the holes in the anti-features may be in the interests of Apple if it lets them get a better deal with mobile networks, but it isn't in the interests of device owners.
These 'security holes' are not typically security holes which let people do things with the device without authorisation from the device's owner; instead, they prevent authorised people… from doing things
The exploits used to allow authorized people to "do things" are the same exploits that can be used to allow unauthorized people to "do things". There's no differentiation at all, except the intent of the person writing the exploit payload.
You might argue that Apple should give jailbreakers everything they want, but Apple won't do that. You can't seriously argue that Apple should hold off on patching security holes because they're being used today by nice people.