Incredible stuff, but telling
What Alice and her extremist army doesnt get is that people can evolve in their opinion based on new evidence. It's part of the criticial thinking they so severly lack, because that's just the point of being a extremist.
At the time we didnt know anything bar what Alice was saying, only her side was heard. So we could only assume what Ioan's decisions mean and how reasonable they were. And in hindsight we were pretty unfair to him (eg we all thought his relationship announcement was unreasonable but with the context he revealed months later in the TRO application it was very reasonable)
Back then I was dead against him and Bianca moving in before Xmas (and I actually still think it is his sole real mistake, but I no longer think it was dead unreasonable), but back then we didnt know how bad his financial situation was, how much Alice was threatening him and how severly the estrangement from Ella already was. My sole concern is whether things would have gone differently with Elsie in hindsight, but I'm very sure Alice would have enforced the estrangement at that point with her as well. She was making excuses on twitter like that the kids cant see him even in the park because surely Ioan would call the paps. It was only Alice's house or nothing for Elsie as well at that point. the punishment had to be increased because the blackmail wasnt working.
In the end it comes back to the same thing: these people demand Ioan to give up things with nothing in return. If it was up to them he would have spend the past 2.5 years alone in his small apartment, giving all his money to his abuser, and having no contact to his kids. And if he has contact to his kids then completely alone or only with Alice so that they can falsely accuse him successfully this time.
Sophie Turner currently gets a lot of support (bar, naturally, the stans of her ex) for making out with some rich dude only weeks after her seperation. I'm sure Alice's army thinks this is unreasonable. Oh wait, no, wrong gender. It's all fine and dandy!
PS: experts say children can be introduced 6 months after you started dating your partner (at the time we assumed that while they knew each other since Harrow that they only started to commit each other 1-2 months before, but it now seems to have been much earlier). It's never about when they find out that you are dating because the whole point is that you dont want to introduce your kids to someone and let them bound only to seperate weeks later. The whole idea that kids are traumatised by the sole idea that their parents may be dating after 6 months isnt even a real thing, it requires severe manipulation by the other parent.....and yet, it doesnt seem like Ioan even had plans to introduce them ASAP. He waited 2 years even. Alice was even criticising his attempts to "normalise" Bianca for the kids over phone calls, although that's exactly how it should be!