The Firm is utterly toxic and corrupt. Nothing Harry or Meghan do as individuals can possibly compare to institutional corruption that treats immediate family and children as disposable tools to prop up an institution.
The entire system exists to support the Monarch and the Heir at all costs - everyone else is dispensable - and the RF exist in an uneasy alliance with the British tabloid press (Buckingham Palace regularly giving secret unlisted parties just for tabloid editors) where they have an unspoken agreement to cooperate with the tabloids.
The real scandal has nothing to do with one basically unimportant whiner going on a podcast to talk about his mental health issues, but corruption that goes to the very deepest parts of how our country is run, which is basically government corruption and the lack of a free press. The RF exist as a prong of the corrupt relationship between the press and the government.
For example, when Matt Hancock was found guilty, the BRF released some trivial story about Harry and Meghan, and the obedient Tory press made sure that story was the one plastered all over the front pages, and not Matt Hancock. Clearly a major British MP who is directly responsible for the UK's COVID response being found guilty of breaking the law and engaging in corruption that killed thousands is a FAR more important news story than "some random celeb kid mouthed off again". It's sheer corruption and proof we have no free press. The BFR were asked to provide a distraction and obediently provided one, and the Tory press agreed to downplay the Matt Hancock story in exchange for being given the splashy royal story instead. That's the deal. That's always the deal.
It's a fact that the RF have given negative stories about Harry to the press in exchange for covering up negative stories about William literally since Harry was an underage teenager. Multiple journalists have confirmed it. The Spare exists only to support the Heir and that means being a sacrificial lamb when needed.
The entire reason the BRF launched such a smear campaign against Harry and Meghan in the first place was to sweeten the press and keep the press on their good side, after William's overly aggressive behaviour and extreme legal threats to cover up his (alleged) affair with Rose Hanbury and prevent the British press from covering it.
The BRF DO have the power to muzzle the press when they want to. Look at the Queen publicly complaining about Sophie's treatment after Sophie tried to sell access to royals - she literally issued a press release asking the press to leave Sophie alone. Look at Kensington Palace issuing official press denials and complaints over stories about Kate's hair and beauty treatments, and the extreme rage and legal threats KP issued over the Kate-bashing Tatler article (threats that resulted in only one paragraph being removed, a paragraph about Rose Hanbury). Look how the Queen made a public show of support for Andrew, and how other scandals (Kate being exposed as never having visited several of her patronages even once since she became patron, royals breaking Covid rules, Beatrice starting a relationship with a man right after he dumped his fiancee who's just given birth leaving her homeless) have been kept out of the press.
Look at the corruption within the Palace. The Palace forced Dan Wootton's BEST FRIEND SINCE SCHOOL Jason Knauf onto Meghan as her press secretary. Jason Knauf was leaking private information to the tabloids about her the entire time, he's the one who gave the Thomas Markle letter to the press and lied that he'd co-written it (had to do an about face at the last minute to avoid perjury) and he's the one who faked the bullying allegations. He also hired his best friend Melissa Touabti for a role she'd never done before, she was fired for gross misconduct (Harry set a trap to find who was leaking, it turned out to be Melissa, and it was later discovered she'd lied on her CV) and despite being fired she immediately walked into a plum job as nanny for a Tory billionaire whose sister is a Daily Mail journalist.
Meanwhile Jason Knauf is rewarded for stabbing his employers in the back and regularly breaking his NDA by being given the plum 'top job' as CEO literally running William and Kate's entire foundation. Which strongly indicates the BRF knew and instructed him to spy on Meghan and to leak damaging info about her to the press, because Royal staff have to sign watertight NDAs - breaking an NDA by leaking private royal information is an automatic firing offence. Why would Will and Kate reward a known liar who sells Royal secrets to the press with such a plum promotion, unless he was acting under orders?
Not to mention the regularity with which private conversations (eg Kate and Meghan's argument during the dress fitting) which are leaked to the press - people seem to take it for granted that the tabloids will print this stuff because people treat the BRF as a soap opera, but no one ever questions how exactly the tabloids get this information. Look at the dress fitting argument - someone had to actually phone up a tabloid reporter and say "Meghan and Kate had an argument today" and that someone clearly was not Meghan or anyone on her team. So who was it? What's the name of the Leaker?
What is the name of the person or people who have leaked Harry's every movement to the press for the past three years? It's obviously not anyone on Harry and Meghan's side, because all the leaks have been negative and all the leaks stopped the second they left.
Then there's the fact William and Kate's own press secretary's partner was caught (copies of bank statements published in Byline Times) accepting two payments totalling £4k from a bank account belonging to the Sun, to sell stories about Meghan.
Corruption from top to bottom.