People have been saying “we’re just gonna get good enough to invalidate all the mid tiers” for 20 years. It’s not even actually a mid tier thing. It’s that’s lots of people assume their opponent has no autonomy on the outcome of the match.
"we did not ask them to cancel their 2022 world finals, we only instructed them we would not be giving them a license for it, and running an event without a license is not allowed"
Our best recourse as a community, in my opinion, is to boycott any Panda cup event and additionally any event associated with Nintendo.
This includes TOs, players, commentators, everybody.