So many times scam project just try to do that to avoid the investors who have been loosing their money to take them all to the court.
That's the nature in crypto space, they also play safe so they will not get sued, and if only we can verify easily we would do that.
Thing is, if they have a big number of investors who invested with money that they can afford to lose, I don't think they will still file a legal action, in the first place, I guess they know already that they could lose so they know and ready to move on.
I don't invest a lot on the project so many I am not so interested with following all the details but I'm always hopeful for an improvement.