True, but it was less about hurting the company than it was a cash grab for the disgruntled, untalented people who brought the case, and who were seeking to pressure the company so they might unfairly receive promotions they didn't earn. And to create headlines for California Democrats to parrot in their campaign virtue signaling to constituents.
Hopefully AB can put this behind them because the moment game developers are forced to spend more time catering to the lowest common denominator within their ranks than to focusing on the product, yielding to incessant bigotry masquerading as affirmative action, they stop turning out great games, and AB has already been struggling with that for a while. The only focus should be on talent and results. The only focus should be on making great games. This identity bullshit only hamstrings that.