I get the whole "if we give any air to intermal strife that shows weakness" thing but when they never address this kind of stuff until way after the fact it does not look good and only allows rumor stuff to proliferate without any kind of effective counter-narrative

Besides that point, sven will probably get worked up into a tizzy of some kind and go on some scathing vague rant in a month or something about how he always sucked or something like that anyways