Honestly, until the law firm responses we can only speculate.
They probably invested in the webtoon (and games) a lot and made the characters look probably really similar to LSF. Chaewon and Sakura's fandom will make sure that the group doesn't flop anyway and with Kazuha going viral, Hybe probably thinks it is going to work out anyway because they are (or were) rising on the charts.
They would maybe feel different if they didn't have Sakura's and Chaewon's fandom and Kazuha going viral, but as of now the group is making money with their album (I think every album over 100k was enough to make them not lose anything, right? I think JYP said this) and they will soon have a new girl group under another label, which can win the public maybe.
They will probably go the boy group route with LSF now and will have CFs for the popular members, while their new girl group will be probably focused on the public.
It seems to be the new phenomenon in kpop, that when there is a scandal the public's opinion is irrelevant as long as the fandom is strong and supports the scandal member (#Stray Kidz or Lia whether she is innocent or not, not being put on hiatus at all).
Hybe handled the scandal in the worst way ever and it turns me off to listen to any of their groups. Entertainment companies being criminal and lying is nothing new, but Hybe handled it so badly and so shamelessly (whether Garam had a "reason" or not for it and whether it was only verbal or physical), many companies do better and even apologise, if it is not 100% true and then reveal what happened (which sometimes comes too late like with Taeyeong. Until this year I thought he was a real bully, but it seems like he "only" wrote a fat shaming comment and sold someone a toy with a broken arm without declaring it purposefully).
Like imagine if Hybe said from the beginning that Garam had an argument with someone in school and through this both sides acted foolishly. And if the other comments about her bad behaviour came up again, they could have said something among the lines that Garam was really bad at expressing herself and thought she was not saying anything in a bad or mean way (because her parents and other school mates also spoke in that way or never corrected her) until she realised when she grew up, that the way she has been speaking could be interpreted in the wrong way and she deeply regrets it and has had no mean intentions.
This would still make people doubt her but LSF non-hardcore fans would have not turned on her so fast and maybe her admitting that she could have spoken in a mean way, would have not lead to the document being realised, because Garam's reputation would have been sullied a little bit and maybe that would have been enough for the person, who released that document? Instead they literally wrote that Garam is a victim, which made the document releaser angry, pushed Eunseo's parents to hire a law firm and can't even backtrack and apologise now for her level 5 record by saying she realised what was wrong and has since changed and can't blame it on others not telling her, that her behaviour was wrong. They could have even still mentioned the underwear picture story and more people would have been not that doubtful towards it, because Hybe would have admitted her bad behaviour by being wrongly socialised (and calling someone out for harming her friend in the only way she knew how to do it etc.). And they could have made her out to be a child, who grew up after this incident.
We will see when and if the law firm responses to it. Hybe really thought they could threaten everyone with sueing, just like it probably happened in other cases before with other entertainment companies, but they were rather unlucky with the fearless (ha! Do you see my joke?) schoolmates coming out