Thomas was IMO kept in the dark, to enable the "racist" narrative from the start, remember Harry's original statement.
It made everything possible after that, they had excuses for their demands, excuses for leaving, and excuses for whining to Oprah.
It looked planned, from day one, the earliest probably being this deleted thing by Scabies:
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He probably deleted it because it was outing, it got fought in media however but ignored, notice the date, also Scabies wasn't perceived as their mouthpiece at that time.