PP, the art of a defense attorney is to deflect, delay, and prevent damage. This, in turn requires much more costs to the plaintiff.
Assuming , arguendo, that AABB has a path to achievement, then they will need every dollar dedicated to those initiatives, not to be exhausted by lawsuits that take years, and hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars.
You are determined to not look at AABB in the dim view, which amounts to blinders, refusing to see the other truths. To an extent , that makes you in the same boat as Gitreal,etc.