EG is the 4th biggest ORG in esports (at least when it comes to prize money) with only Liquid, OG and Spirit beating them
also they had a Val team since the beginning basically and were very well off financially in 2022-2023 (otherwise they couldntve funded their crazy 10 man roster in val or the 15 man roster in cs)
Also even if Optic had stayed in they wouldve still split up in the exact same way with yay taking the bag from C9 and Marved retiring.
The only thing that wouldve changed is that the team wouldntve been under that absolutely dogshit NRG management thatt has no fucking clue what they are doingg and is just taking players by recent succes, not caring about trials, roles or anything else. But I dont know if its the NRG management or ch0t being braindead so that couldve been a thing in optic as well.