If you think that would lead to anything, then you are blind. The lawsuit itself lists examples of people knowing but not doing anything out of either trying to protect the company or fear of retaliation. And accounts back each other up.
Furthermore, higher ups like JAB and Morhaime haven’t denied this all happened. They just have made statements about failing the victims.
The state would not waste time and money investigating them if there is nothing there. And would not bring up a lawsuit after two years if it were something with a high chance of losing the case. This isn’t a group of women suing them. The focus initially wasn’t even about those statements. That stuff was found after they started investigating them because of complaints of unfair employment practices.
There isn’t any amount listed for a judgment. Although like Kotick, if found guilty, there likely will be a settlement. But the focus was on getting them to change their practices. Hence why Afrasiabi left in secret. But there hasn’t been enough change there. So the lawsuit happened.
They gave them two years to fix things. They applied bandaids. 