Sorry dude, but there are links ITT showing the reaction to his apology. The reactions are real.
I disagree. People have come back from worse.
It doesn't matter if this is the way its done because of least potential blowback. With honest intention and a lot of hard work, I'm pretty sure he could have carved himself a spot again even if it was via crowd funding or something.
Those links wouldn't exist had he not sexually harassed anyone.
You are presenting these fairy tale theories when people who get paid a lot of money to research and practice these exact scenarios and have mountains of precedence to suggest otherwise.