That could be, but even if they get out that way, I could still see Hybe being vindictive in other ways. The aforementioned "you'll never work in this town again". We saw what BBC tried to do with Loona members and stopping other companies having anything to do with them. Imagine that on a Big 4 company scale. A company big enough to lean on distributors. Music Stores. Music shows. Festival organisers. Especially a company that can use the biggest kpop group ever as a bargaining chip.
I've never made it any secret I find NJ boring and the "vision" boring and not my taste.
But the things she did creatively are still a HUGE reason NJ got where they got as fast as they got.