Once again you're accepting Gio's premise and Gio's centricity. Saying that the articles was worth "the end of the world" on either side is only true for Gio. Those articles, being able to saying he had "exposé" and claim to be a "journalist" was everything to Gio. They were not everything to Hussie. Hussie owns their own work. Hussie knows more than any of us the stage of the site being back up even with VIZ's bullshit. With it coming back very soon as multiple people working on it have said, then of course the UHC not going to be as important for Hussie as it would be for Hussie to protect his employees (not even talking about WP, there were a LOT of things in that blog post and Sarah Z's video from Gio's "information").

If the UHC goes down, then Hussie takes a temporary hit while the site is still being worked on, but was able to stand their ground in not tacitly endorsing abuse (or "speculation") to their employees. I think it's quite reasonable, even honorable, for Hussie to prioritize the security of their friends and collaborators.