WB's hands were forced. They lied, concealed the truth and denied themselves as being complicit in having a hand in messing up the theatrical cut of Justice League, their attempts to blackballing Zack Snyder and burning the bridges with the relationship with the cast, especially Ray Fisher's. WB didn't want this to happen. They fought against the cries for this to happen, but their PARENT COMPANY, AT&T, overruled it and MADE them greenlit the Synder Cut because AT&T knew that it'll generate more streaming subscribers for HBO Max. Now WB been very spiteful. They barely promoted it, all the promotion been either Snyder himself and bloggers on the internet, many firmly believe to include Ray Fisher, that someone in WB purposely tried to leak the movie, WB doesn't want this film to be any ways successful at all, it would justify their so-called reasons of b*stardizing it and they hope it'll end the cries for Zack Snyder's universe to continue. They want this to be one and done forever.