BAFTA could have put the exact same statement out ('in view of the serious allegations' etc) before the awards. Why didn't they? I don't suppose we'll get an answer to that but we can surmise they had an agenda and were keen and eager to get on and do the award.
On reading the Guardian account it was striking how so many of the women, mostly young, junior and inexperienced in the industry, were fearful, unsure and feeling they had to parry and negotiate the abusive behaviour in their own heads, emotions and even in decisions to leave their career. People may wonder why in some cases they didn't speak about it to other women even when they'd observed them being badly treated too but I think that illustrates how precarious they experience their position to be in those circumstances.
How powerful the invisible barriers to speech or protest, the crushing weight of entitled culture, the lack of any protective mechanisms and the overwhelming presumption and the reality facing them, that the penalty in one form or another will fall on the woman.